Greveniti


Greveniti is a village and a community of the Zagori municipality in Ioannina Regional Unit, Greece. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of East Zagori, of which it was a municipal district. The 2021 census recorded 109 inhabitants in the village. The community of Greveniti covers an area of 37.077 km2. The village is located in the eastern part of the Zagori region, close to a hill named Toufa.

Name

Linguist Kostas Oikonomou writes the toponym with the suffix -itis has two derivations. The first Grevenitis stemming from the placename Grevena, originating from greveno 'rock' and derived from the Slavic grebenъ 'ridge', 'rock', an interpretation which Oikonomou states aligns with the Aromanian name of the village Grebenitsli and the tradition where the village was settled by inhabitants of the Grevena region. The second from greveno, as in the above etymology and the suffix -itis, where grevenitis means 'place with many rocks'.

Demographics

Greveniti has an Aromanian population and is an Aromanian speaking village.