Walking Through the Streets of Ioannina in Epirus, Greece
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- Walking through the streets of Ioannina, the capital and largest city in the Epirus region of northwestern Greece.
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There is an inhabited island inside the lake of Ioannina, , you missed it !!!
The Fall of Constantinople in 1204 is a major turning point in medieval history. The decision of the Crusaders to attack the largest Christian city in the world was unprecedented and controversial. Reports of the depredations and brutality of the Crusaders scandalized and horrified the Orthodox world. Relations between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches were disastrously affected for many centuries and were not substantially restored until modern times. The Byzantine Empire was left much poorer, smaller and ultimately less able to reverse the Turkification of the Asia Minor hinterland. The actions of the Crusaders immediately accelerated the collapse of Christianity in the east and in the long term facilitated the expansion of Islam in Europe
There was a sign in Greek in the greater entrance indicating there's a museum inside the yard area.
Ioannina is the city of jewellery makers. Sotirios Voulgaris was from there.
Τα διάσημα Bulgari jewelry?
@@CristinaGreece Ναι
You have the best multitasking skills, whether walking along doing your vlog or driving a manual car and filming at the same time. Thanks for taking the time out to show Ioannina, even though you weren’t well, much appreciated. Looks like a charming and historical town. I hope you’re feeling much better now. ❤️✌️
Hi Gabriel, I spent several weeks in Parga in 1977. It was a small village/town then, and I stayed in a little place for $9 per night. It was a magical experience for sure. We took a small boat trip to Alexandria’s beach and beautiful grotto. It was only a few miles away. Safe travels! 💚
Very cool. It's still a small town but probably bigger now. I'll show it in the next video.
Good for you that you're exploring Epirus, such a lovely and unknown to the foreigners place.
Are you Yoda from Star Wars?
4:35 FYI: The poster calls for "no involvement of Greece in the massacre" in Palestine
And "Freedom to Palestine" in the beginning
How if about the demand giving back the Temple Mountain which belongs to them?
Hey Gabriel. Ioannina is very beautiful and in my opinion deserves more exploring. Especially the inhabited island on the lake which I think is the only one in Greece. Especially the surrounding villages. Too bad you were in a hurry.
😊looks nice and green and lush there which is nice to see after all the fires last year they had hopefully the clouds and rain are keeping the fires away this year
I could count on one hand the # of days the sun has come out here in NH. Just gray all the time! I love these little hidden gems along the way. 😊
I O A NNI NA (the tone on A), one of my favorite cities to live in Greece !! 💙✌
@@mariafentis 💖
@@mariafentis I O A NNI NA is the long "proper" form. Ya nni na is the short form.
Thank you Gabe. You're videos really make me want to quit my job and start travelling.
Nice walk through the diversity of the buidings in the beautiful Ioannina city!
Nice to see happy faces greeting you in Greece. Kalimera/Kalispera.
I also wanna add, “muchas gracias.”
The lake Gabriel, you missed the lake and its island! But it was beautiful to the see the streets of my birth city after so many years. Thank you!
I like the city of Ioannina for it,s location,surrounded by mountains,by a lake with an island,and there is a ski center nearby-Metsovo,I could imagine living there!👍
13:20 if you were to turn left you would have gotten to the heart of the castle where Ali Pashas grave is and a great coffee shop with an even greater view of the lake...
Awesome gabe! I was just waiting for your new video.. Have a great time in Greece..
After this video for Ioannina and the previous one for Kastoria I officially understood that you don't like
Waterfronts. It's a pity, because that's why both of them are famous of. The lake of Ioannina has a very
picturesque inhabitant island in it which is very easy to visit.
The Siege and Fall of Constantinople took place in April 1204 and marked the climax of the Fourth Crusade. The Crusaders, led by Henry Dandolo, Boniface of Momferrat, and Baldwin of Flanders, captured, sacked, and destroyed parts of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. After the Fall of the City, the Latin Empire (known to the Byzantines as the Frankish or Latin Occupation) was established and Baldwin of Flanders was crowned Emperor as Baldwin I of Constantinople in Hagia Sophia.
It is sunny and warm in the U.K. today.
Take the opportunity as long it last mate.
Thank you for this walking through the streets of Ioannina. Allow me, please to make some explanation. In 1204 the Latin empire was established by the participants of the Fourth Crusade and Constantinopol fell.In the unoccupied areas, Epirus Despot State, Nikei Empire and the Trapesund Empire appeared. In 1261 The Nikei Emperor Michael VIII Paleolog defeated the Crusards, liberated Konstantinopol and reestablished the Bisantian Empire. The inscription you show may be Turkish. Turkey adopted the Latin Alphabet after the fall of the Ottoman Empire followng the reforms of Kemal Ataturk.
Sun, Sunny The Best away to Enjoy! Greck always remind us History!!!
Another Awesome Adventure Thank You Gabriel🙂❤👍
Hey bro, great video! I would love to check out that part of Greece myself! I'm currently in Crete, if you have any plans on coming this way I'd love to meet you!
I'll be in Turkey 🇹🇷 soon, you will come and we'll meet
Είσαι ένας φίλος της Ελλάδος ❤❤
Next time consider asking a local where to go, the lake and its island is something you'd wanna see
The weather in Sanct-Peterburg and Tallinn was sunny and cool today. Hopefully it will reach Greece soon.
How will it reach Greece?
17:30. Sign basically says KEEP OUT, illegal to enter. That building is the old Ottoman library
There is an underground 3 storey garage under the center square.
There is a 3 storey open air garage behind the clock opposite your hotel
You should have vusited the lake front and the picturesque island which is inhabited btw. Also, there is a fascinating prehistoric cave nearby with beautiful crystals.
I am glad you decided to film the streets of Ioannina.
Ioannina is mainly known as the capital city of the almost independent Pashalik (Ottoman province) ruled by Ali Pasha of Ioannina (1740 - January 24, 1822). He was decapitated by order of the Sultan Mahmud II. Today you can visit his house in the Old city of Ioannina, by the lake, his summer residence on the island of Lake Pamvotis, and his tomb next to the Fethiye Mosque, in one of the most scenic historical parks of Greece (which you unfortunately missed). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Pasha_of_Ioannina
You have many reasons to return to Epirus, including the Zagoria villages, the Dodona archaeological site with a majestic ancient theatre, and a beautiful cave, a taxi's drive away from Ioannina city centre. Plan your next trip in winter or summertime to experience the dramatic alpine landscapes and spectacular mountain rain storms. Arguably one of the most beautiful regions of Greece, full of Hellenistic, Roman, Medieval Byzantine, Ottoman, and WWII history, completely different from what you know in the islands. Very nice video from the backstreets that tourists usually ignore.
I was in Parga last year. So nice. I have some great tips 😊
Hi Gabe love the videos. I was just wondering what is that noise we hear must be way you are holding the camera. For example at 10:38 and 10:58 in.
Viewers are clamoring for you to visit LAKE PAMVOTIDA which the city of Ioannina lies on the west side of. It has a Byzantine fortress and the Fetiche Mosque. Its Byzantine museum has fascinating artifacts so take some Euros to pay to enter! At the fishing port you can take a boat to the island in the middle of the lake. There you will find the Ali Pasha Museum where you can still see bullet holes in the floor where he was assassinated.
You speak for all viewers?
The ones that know, do so. Stay ignorant..
@@michelvanroode3940 Tell me more about ignorance Van Roode. You know a lot do you?
Constantople saw sacked by the cursaders in the 1200 :p
1204!
@@annavsmith1 yup
@@magureveeruit was 1204 , not 1200 🤔
Ottomans used to qrite in Arabic. Turkey change it in 1928
The fez can still be worn in Turkey. 🇹🇷👍
Hi Gabriel, nice little walk-through it's always interesting to see something you're not expecting. You definitely have to get to a warm beach and avoid getting a cold which sounds like what you're getting. In other words, you need to break a sweat.
Interesting 🏴👍🙏
Free Scotland 🏴
Aye, free Scotland! 🏴
English scoundrels repress Scotland
I wonder whether you're aware of the stain on your camera lenz😊. It blurs the view a bit.
Is your sword used for love or hate? 😯
As for the comment just before 17:25. That building seems to be an Ottoman mosque. The Turks left Ioannina and what is today northern Greece during the Balkan Wars. Ioannina was liberated by Greek forces in February of 1913 .... so just over 100 years ago. Also, near Ioannina is the ancient theater of Dodona which is the most ancient of all ancient Greek theaters. You can also visit the village of Rodotopi which is located near the remains of the ancient city of Pasarona which was the capital I believe of the Molossians which were an ancient Greek kingdom of Epirus. Members of their royal family included the mother of Alexander the Great and King Pyrrhus which was famous for Pyrrhic victory with his battles against the Romans which took place in Italy. When the Romans took over Greece, they enslaved about 100,000 people from Epirus and sent them back to Rome as slaves. A new city near Preveza was built by the Romans named Nikopolis. If you travel from Ioannia to Preveza you'll pass near the area known as Agio Giorgo where you can see the remains of an old aquaduct that brought water from the mountians to Nikopolis. That's a cool spot because they have a place where locals take their carpets and clean them the old traditional way.
great video thanks so much for share with us. saludos
The first building you encountered resembles somewhat the Tzistarakis Mosque in Monastiriki near the flea market. Sign says 'entry forbidden due to danger.'
Greece got it going on!
Yer ma has it goin on
At 10:30 mark I hear Americans discussing driving. I guess Epirus region is getting discovered by Americans. That’s good for Gabriel Traveler as prices in Italy and France get us thinking about new destinations. I met a fly n fly out mine worker from Australia on a bus to Skopje headed to this region. They have so much more time for slow travel and don’t need to be quite as discerning with the luxury of time.
You may catch a flight to Thessaloniki directly from USA. It's a 3 hour drive maximum from
Thessaloniki airport to Ioannina.
@@eleniasimop My Greek sister friends are pastry 🥮 chefs in San Francisco and proudly call Thessaloniki home. Can’t wait to visit in September as can’t take summer heat. Are you from Northern Greece too? Looking at 21 hour journey from SFO via Istanbul to Thessaloniki on Turkish Airlines.
@@pat2row I am from Kozani which is between Thessaloniki and Ioannina. There is a rather new street named "Egnatia" which most of people use now to go from Thessaloniki to Ioannina. You don't have any more to go through the mountain route Gabriel did, except if you want to see the incredible views and live the adventure.
24:50 I really need to take a closer look in order to decipher whether the inscription is Turkish written in Arabic scripts or basically Arabic. Nevertheless I am able to catch some Arabic words like Alfatiha (the first chapter in the Quran). I believe these are grave stones with the name of the deceased and date of the death, one of the tablet dated to 1313 H which is equivalent to 1895 G, other tablet mentions 1215 H which is equivalent to the year 1858 in Georgian.
Also if you do go towards Kavala you should make a stop at the lion of amphipolis.
Make your way down to Parga it’s just beautiful
Ioannina was famous for Ali Pasha. He basically wanted to break away from the Ottoman Empire and start his own kingdom if you will. The Sultan wasn't happy with that idea, so he sent soldiers to Ioannina to kill Ali Pasha. As such, the Sultan sent thousands of soldiers from what is today Southern Greece to Ioannina to deal with Ali Pasha. Since that area was left poorly defended ... Greek rebels found it ideal to start a rebelion which was the start of the Greek War of Independece of 1821.
I think that Turkish used to be written in Arabic or Arabic-like script.
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Okay Ioannina! ☆ I started to take it as a personal challenge when, at 22:01 you'd said: "you can’t get any higher up" just as the video showed a ladder to the roof.
It's nice to walk thru this town and see the other places to park. I think the $40 car rental would keep me confident about any bookings snafu's - esp if one of those hybrid 55mpg + carriages, was available. Are you hearing many diesels there?
Happy trails☆ 🌲😎🌲
Turkish language was written in Arabic until the early 20th Century and Atatürk adopted the Latin Alphabet.
There were many places unfortunately you were not able to see .
the way your pronounce Ioannina is Yanina but with no accent on the na at the end .
Hey Gabriel, the writings you saw are definitely Arabic. This is not unusual even if it was the Otheman empire, in mosques everywhere, they would have verses of the Coran sculpted on stones and walls. coran verses are almost always in arabic. They would Almost never have a translation
I see, good to know.
Torah always written in Hebrew, Koran always in Arabic.
The Ottomans actually used the Arabic script up until 100 years ago when they converted to the Latin alphabet.
lol yep you butchered the pronunciation of Ioannina 😂 But we forgive you.. Thanks for the video Matey 👍😆
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Byzantine empire was for 1.100 years.
For us Konstantinoupoli means a lot in our souls 💙💙💙🇬🇷
@@BhutWhut το κατανοώ!!!!αλλά ο ιδιοκτήτης αγαπάει πιο πολύ το σπίτι του από τον φιλοξενουμενο🇬🇷💙🇬🇷💙🇬🇷
During Ottoman times, I believe inside the castle walls is where the Turks lived. Greeks lived outside the walls for the most part.
It always amazes me how much carbs Gabriel can get away with.....I go into diabetic shock looking at it...
So the alphabet of the Turkish language as well as Farsi which is the language of Persians, was and is Arabic, but they are 3 completely different languages. For instance, as much as you understand Italian, although the alphabet is similar to English, an Arab understands Farsi or would understand Turkish before they change their alphabet to Latin. (also there are 4 alphabets specific to Farsi, meaning you don't have those alphabets in Arabic)
The Turks used the Arabic script and had many Arabic and Persian words. Until the time of Kemal Atatürk, who imposed the Latin alphabet.
That's what I thought, so perhaps it was Turkish on the tablets, or maybe Arabic verses from the Koran.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos there is a very interesting museum on the island
greece got really affordable all the sudden. 60 bucks a night with a huge free breakfast...that's cheaper than rent here.
It’s Not summer yet don’t forget.
In 1204 the Crusaders sucked Constantinople
At 23:28 those tablets are Turkish. The Turks were using the Arabic alphabet before adopting the Latin one...
Ioannina was a major Ottoman Turkish hub, as many Turks and Jews had settled there...
Free the Jews 🇮🇱
The sign is saying: access is denied cuz of danger.
i o A nina 😊😊😊
Or
ee o A neena
Lovely city.
Τρομερή υγρασία κάθε ώρα. Όμορφη πόλη και αγαπημένη.αλλα το χρήμα δυστηχως αλλοίωσε πολλά…
1204: sack of Constantinople by the crusaders.
IoaNINJA here we come!
Ioanna + nina = Ioannina 😁
The stones you saw are written in Ottoman Turkish. Following the creation of the Turkish Republic, Ataturk sought to do away with the Arabic script to modify and make Turkey more ‘European’.
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Arabic
@@CallumScottieCambell
Ok I was wrong
Is the breakfast for two or three?! 😂
YioaNNINA not YioaNINNYA. No Ya at the end.
Got it.
Honest question do you really find this kind of rushed travel enjoyable? You missed the lakeside for a second time in a row, there's even a populated island there 🤦♂I kinda wish you didn't make these last 2 videos and instead took the time to research and take it in on your own. Instead of making half-baked videos, focus on quality control because this is quite embarrassing and hurts your credibility.
His videos are just fine!
I have to say I agree mostly with this post. It matters to get the names of places correct when committing your content to worldwide public views especially with places such as Greece which are clearly some of your favorite destinations on planet earth. While it's been clear that you're generally respectful of cultures, learning on the fly can send a wrong message that you haven't done enough research. I feel your approach is a lot focused on wanting to be surprised by what you happen along - but taking time to share more things factual and interesting about 20th-21st century Greece - while getting more details correct - would be greatly appreciated even if it must begin with the origin of the amazing food dishes that you clearly love to consume.
Of course a big factor might well be constraints of time & wanting to offer fresh content nearly every day. quick solution? Add 1-2 extra days before dropping the next video. After all, a lot of streaming services make us wait a full week before the next episodes and a year or even more before the renewals of seasons.
I had a five day period to explore northern Greece because of meeting someone else back in Athens. There were a bunch of places I wanted to see, so I decided to pack it in because I don't know when I'll get the chance to explore that area again. And I knew things would be more relaxed once I got back to the islands. So it was a bit rushed but also amazing. I wasn't too concerned about seeing everything there was to see in each town. There are a bunch more videos coming from that area showing lots of interesting places. But now I have super slow wifi and am traveling with someone else so haven't had time for editing. So it might be a little while before those other videos come out.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos I thought the plan was to go to the Vikos Gorge and stay there for a few days and explore the nearby towns, landmarks, and nature. That would have been a great plan but then you stay 5 minutes at the gorge and leave, and also rush everything else. Those videos gave me anxiety, no normal person travels like that.
The sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople, then the capital of the Byzantine Empire. If the Crusaders hadn't destroyed the city it is doubtful weather the Turks would be able to occupy.
Irrelevant sentence at the end. And the rest has already been written by several other viewers. Too little, too late, fella.
All this trash and graffiti everywhere...
What has become of my beloved Greece?
Cleanup your own graffiti pal
@@JonnieSlade-fh2cg And who appointed you gauleiter of youtube?
Graffiti to some, art to others 😂
@@tomlee7956 Hey Tommie Boy, u left a comment, then I left a comment. 🙄
@@JonnieSlade-fh2cg I did not leave the comment to you but you responded to me, so I had to respond just to be polite...
Hi from Oslo 27 + c. Egil Olav.
Wow, it's warmer there than Greece, enjoy it.
Free New Caledonia 🇲🇫
These are ottoman turkish language written in arabic. Kemal Ataturk changed the writing into latin
Ask the locals to learn and pronounce the name of the places correctly! It is so annoying!
Free Julian assange
Send him to Leavenworth
Send him to Russia so that he can expose them too
47 degree celsius in India😢😢😢😢😢
Sux
Drag
@@gerry9306 Sorry what do you mean
@@AKASHROY-i9f It's a drag man. It's a drag that it's so hot, Luther.
The writing on the clay tablets was indeed Arabic. The Arabs were in the region at some point. When I visited Southern Albania, Ksamil,and the Butrint National park which isnt far away maybe 40km they talked about the Arabs that were there. The history of the area is a bit disputed between Albanian and Greeks. Modern Greeks do not like to admit real history I have learned. The Greeks of today are not necessarily the Greeks of yesterday. Byzantines are also not Greeks. These groups were conglomerates in a sense, stitching together different lands and peoples to create the empire. Similar to Roman Empire these large empires often included many different ethnic groups. Ali Pasha ruled Ioannina within the Ottoman Empire and was a Muslim. He clashed with the Ottomans at times but was a part of their military order in the region. He was a follower of Sufism and mystic religious practice within Islam.
The languαge is the same,and the creed. J am writing as j see things living in Preveza.We the Greeks doesnt understand any language as Turkish or other.When we read ancient Greek inscriptions we understand the 50-70%,
1st
Second.
Hi Gabriel- I’m a fellow American living in Bodrum, Turkey, I have a large house with a separate apartment near the beach, you’re welcome to come and stay for free -
This is Albanian city and always will be‼️
It’s sad when churches charge entrance fees, they should be adequately supported by the state as part of its cultural heritage.
Greece isn't a rich country. Let the tourists pay. No problem 😊
Churches do not charge an entrance fee. That was a museum.
The first and very severe siege of Constantinople was in 1204 from the Forth Crusade and was called by Pope Innocent the III in order to recapture Jerusalem. This led to overtaking the throne of Constantinople for nearly 100 years from the French and military weakening of the city,which ultimately was sieged for the second time, by the Ottomans.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople
It was taken back in 1261 by Alexios Strategopoulos 🇬🇷👍🏻
So was taken for about 57 years
All rubbish
@@DaltonMirklestein 😂You can say that.. 👍 Rubbish Sack..
None of it is true. Check the facks Jack
@@CallumScottieCambell Some facts for you Scottie..
You can rarely find sunshine in Ioannina mostly rain and humidity. There are at least 5 museums in the city. Ioannina is a university town and has one of the best university hospital in the country
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I can't believe how green this part of Greece is. This looked like a very charming and neat town.
Glad you like my home town! And, btw, most of Greece is very green, you are probably thinking of the Aegean islands. They are on all tourism promotion materials, but they are nothing like the mainland. An American friend once told me very surprised that Ioannina reminded hime of Maine 😁
Most of Western, Central and Northern Greece is green, the arid landscapes in the Southeast of the country, above all, the Cyclades and Crete, are the exception rather than the rule. I think that marketing these arid islands to the World as prime destinations was a big success story for Greece.
Only the islands are arid, mainland Greece is very green. Unfortunately, all the movies on ancient myths show Greece without a single tree. That's because that's the idea of Greece tourists have in their mind, since they mostly visit the islands. In reality, Greece is very green.
It’s sunny and warm here in Ireland today 😆
You hardly saw anything from ioannina
Yeah ,it's like he didn't want to be there.
Did you hear him say is this video was not going to be a proper city video
@@BrianWeber-gt4ho Yes I did, what of it?
@@taurus167 answering aok's original comment
What's your bag, Weber? 🤔@@BrianWeber-gt4ho
Ioannina, one of the most "rainy" cities in Greece, but amazingly beautiful
Ioannina is pronounced ' YUH - NEE - NUH.' It is named after St. John which in Greek is St. Ioannis. It means 'City of John.' The city was named after St.John due to St. John's Monastery, founded around 510 AD. He was at the time patron saint of the area.
I see, that's right. I knew that Ioannis meant John, but hadn't made the connection.
Thanks for the video! I really like these mainland Greece videos! This is authentic travel vlogging in my book... You take something well-known: Greece. But then you really show an unknown side full of history, culture and amazing landscapes without a tourist in sight. Driving around some island feels like tourism, this feels like traveling if you know what im saying.
I agree but he doesn't seem to be enjoying it, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or immersion of him going to those places, misses crucial landmarks, leaves a place as soon as he gets there, doesn't explore any of the nature, complains about the weather even though he's doing a mountain trip...the vlogging itself is terrible even though the places aren't, which is a shame.
@@ΕπαμεινώνδαςΛιάσκος Yeah I get it. Im often very critical in the comment section in the attempt to provide actual feedback. There is a real challenge in creating interesting content and having a pleasant travel experience both. For Gabriel... you know, this is his livelyhood. For us Europeans this might be hard to understand. We'll always have this comfortable safety net of social care. Americans dont have that... He get what..? 10-20k views per video? Thats like $200 at most? So he has to crank out 20 videos a month or else he just wont make enough... But I love and will always support this channel. The sheer will of this guy just to get out there and see the world despite which cards he got dealt in life is just amazing. Thats why I even bother to be honest in the first place. This guy could have been some crackhead in San Fransisco Tenderloin but instead, he has truly worked hios way up to a life that only a few of us are privileged enough to ever experience... And all that with just a couple of $100 and a camera... This guy has my deepest respect, even though it doenst always sounds like it.
@@ΕπαμεινώνδαςΛιάσκος A shame for sure!
@@ΕπαμεινώνδαςΛιάσκος Sure but its his job... He doesnt have the comfy social security we Europeans have. He gets like 20k views per video? I dont know the curent rates but that like $200 ? That mean he has to produce at least 20 videos per month to survive... Thats... a lot. Im sure he would prefer a beach on Koh Samui with a beer in one hand and two oriental beauties in the other but that probably wont cut it. I love this guy and the life he managed to build up for himself so that why I bother to really give some honest critical feedback instead of just posting "amazing" every time... It must be really hard to strike a balance between entertaining an audience and staying true to yourself at the same time... But Gabriel is one of the , if not the absolute best doing so. Making money while not being a sellout must be really tough in that industry. He has 600k subs so he must be getting loads of shady offers, but he never sells us out, he never promotes something sponsored, and to stay afloat while upholding these priciples is laudable. He is just selling his experience, nothing more, nothing less. But like any job, sometimes you are just going through the motions.
@@ageoflove1980 I agree that not taking sponsorships deserves some respect. As for the rest, the way I see it he's close to retirement anyway so he's not concerned with quality control and growing his channel as much.
Welcome to my home town Gabriel...
Have you been to Turkia? 🇹🇷
Thanks, nice city.
At the end of the video: Those stones have Turkish writing. In the Ottoman era, the Turkish language was written in Arabic script. In 1928, the Republic of Turkey switched to Latin script.
Ioannina is basically the London of Greece. Hardly any sunshine there due to the high altitude and the fact that the city is surrounded by mountains. Lovely place though, especially the small villages scattered around the area. Can’t wait for your Parga episode! Have fun!!
I'm looking forward to the next country too
Hopefully you pay a visit to Preveza!