Aristi
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Aristi
Αρίστη | |
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 View of Aristi from the south | |
  Aristi | |
| Coordinates: 39°56′4.14″N 20°40′19.49″E / 39.9344833°N 20.6720806°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Epirus |
| Regional unit | Ioannina |
| Municipality | Zagori |
| Municipal unit | Central Zagori |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Community | 115 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Aristi (Greek: Αρίστη; before 1929: Αρτσίστα, Artsista)[2][3] is a village in the Ioannina Regional Unit in Epirus, northwestern Greece. The community consists of the villages Aristi and Vikos.
The village is recorded with the form Artzista both in the Chronicle of Ioannina (14th century) and in the book Chronography (1854) by the scholar Panagiotis Aravantinos. Aravantinos described the toponym as Albanian. It is derived from the Albanian phytonym arrç, -i 'buckthorn' and the Slavic-derived Albanian suffix -ishtë (and -ishta in the definite form), which indicates the place where a certain type of grass, bush, or tree grows.[4] In the Zagori region, Albanian toponyms are among the few traces of a late medieval Albanian migration toward central and southern Greece.[5]