It is one of the northernmost villages of the prefecture of Thesprotia, the ori Tsamanta, at an altitude of 670 m. In the place “Kastri”, between the village ΒαβοÏÏι and the village of Lia, have been found the ruins of an ancient τειχισμÎνου settlement, that existence is suspected, and in the imperial period. The village has developed significantly in economic terms during the first half of the 20th century, something that continued in the following decades, due to the migration of residents to urban centers and abroad.
The village church is dedicated to the Dormition of the Virgin mary. A short distance away is the Monastery of Agios Athanassios, where the Day is made a festival. Other festivals in the village on 17 July the feast of Agia Marina and the fifteenth of August. ΜπαμποÏÏι the original name. The folklorist Claus ΜπαÏάς writes: “Old weather, and at a time when the men were working a chore, and missing all of them from the village Wanted to run Liapedes. Then the ΜπαμπουÏιώτισσες praised the initiative and the position of the αντÏώνε them missing, they alerted the rebel that although it is Us-μποÏφ(=not men) would not permit it to he shall tread no village without war.I will fight with them. A justified nervous delirium caught the women, and entire days and nights loud αχοÏσαν the women’s cries, of all the backs, the σελώματα and walks of life, like a war cry, like a wail, “ΠαμποÏουουÏ, ΠαμπουουουουÏουου, ΠαμπουουÏουουουουâ€, and resounded from those all around λόγγα and canyons. Those were they ashamed,-they considered it cowardly to fight with women, and εγλÏτωσε the village from certain destruction. So over the baptisms, and the village supported the name from the “Pam-pur” (=non-men) of women, who stayed proverbial now…”.
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ΒΑΒΟΥΡΙ: A beautiful village on the Greek-Albanian border, which is slowly dying!
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