Gramos

Gramos

"For the community in the Kastoria Prefecture, see Gramos, Greece"Infobox mountain
Name=Gramos or Grammos
Γράμος
Elevation=2,520 m
Location=Central Ioannina Prefecture, Greece
Pronunciation=Gram•os

Gramos or Grammos ( _el. Γράμος) is a mountain range in the northeastern Ioannina and the westernmost Kastoria prefecture in Greece as well as southeastern Albania. The mountain is part of the Pindus mountain ranges and is one of the northermost. Its peaks stand over 2,520 m. It owes its name to the Aromanian community of Gramos in the westernmost Kastoria Prefecture. The region is inhabited mostly by aromanians(vlachs).

The GR-20 (GR-20 (Kozani - Konitsa - Ioannina) is to the southeast. Its length is approximately 25 to 30 km from northwest to southeast and its width is approximately 15 to 20 km from southwest ot northeast.

Mount Grammos was a communist stronghold during the Greek Civil War and site of the relevant battle in 1949.

Nearest places

*Gramos, north
*Aetomilitsa, south-west
*Katyli or Katili, east
*Vourbiani, south

Information

Forests dominate the low lying areas of the mountain and contains pine and spruce trees, the valley areas, grasslands, bushes and unvegetated portions dominate the higher elevations. The area around the mountain contains villages and forest roads as well as hiking trails, many of the roads do not connect both sides of the mountain range. Two roads surround the mountains. The mountaintop is to the southeast.

The mountain was a major communist stronghold in the Greek Civil War. The provisional democratic government (i.e. the communist government) had its headquarters in the vicinity. It fell to the national government only in 1949, bringing the near conclusion of the Greek Civil war since after its fall only isolated pockets were left in communist control. The mountain still has live minefields from the civil war despite decades of demining and access to parts of the mountain is perilous.

Panorama

Its panorama includes the mountains of southeatern Albania, the mountains in the Kastoria prefecture as well as most of the valley and its lake, the Voio mountains and the northeastern Ioanina prefecture as well as Smolikas and parts of Tymfi.

ee also

*List of mountains in Greece

External links

[http://www.greekmountainflora.info/Grammos/Grammos.html Greek Mountain Flora]


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