Overview

The largest in population - 11.680 residents - Municipality of the Prefecture of Thesprotia, covers an area of 80.808.000 m2, occupying the region around the big bay of the capital city of the Prefecture, Igoumenitsa, and up to the old mouth of Kalamas river.

The plain was a result of the silts of Kalamas, while it has been claimed that the Lygia Peninsula, the Pyrgos of Ragio, etc., and small hills in the area of the river's sources, used to be islands (the Syvota, islands of Thucydides) during the historic period.The cape of Drepano - where the homonymous municipal camping is today - which partly blocks the entrance of the bay, and the shallowness of the sea, had probably made, from the ancient times, the use of the bay as a port, problematic. (Thucydides: "Limin Erimos" (Deserted Port)) Very few stone tools of the Mid-Paleolithic era (±40.000-9.000 B.C.), comprise the only indication of appearance of the prehistoric man, at the limits of the Municipality. The excavations at the hill of the Pyrgos of Ragio showed that the area had already been inhabited since the 2nd millennium B.C.