Parapotamos (, before 1928: Βάρφανη - ''Varfani'') is a village and a former municipality in

Thesprotia Thesprotia (; , ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Epirus region. Its capital and largest town is Igoumenitsa. Thesprotia is named after the Thesprotians, an ancient Greek tribe that inhabited the region in antiquity. His ...

, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Igoumenitsa Igoumenitsa () is a coastal city in northwestern Greece. It is the capital of the regional unit of Thesprotia. Igoumenitsa is the chief port of Thesprotia and Epirus, and one of the largest passenger ports of Greece, connecting northwestern Main ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 60.334 km². Population 969 (2021). The village of Parapotamos, the former municipality's seat, was home to

Cham Albanians Cham Albanians or Chams (; , ), are a sub-group of Albanians who originally resided in the western part of the region of Epirus in southwestern Albania and northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Chameria. The Chams have their ow ...

, before 1944, when they were expelled for collaborating with Nazi forces.official site of Parapotamos Municipality

Name

The name of Parapotamos means "riverside" or "by the river" in the Greek language. The village is known as Varfanj in Albanian, which comes from varfër/varfanjak meaning "poor", thus Varfani, "poor area" or "poor region" in Albanian.

References

Populated places in Thesprotia Igoumenitsa Former Cham settlements {{Epirus-geo-stub