Kastaniani
Community in Greece
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Kastaniani (Greek: Καστάνιανη, between 1950–2013: Καστανέα, Kastanea)[2][3] is a mountain village in the Ioannina regional unit in northern Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Mastorochoria. It is situated in the northern Pindus mountains, near the left bank of the river Sarantaporos. It is 4 km southeast of Pyrsogianni and 18 km northeast of Konitsa.
Kastaniani
Καστάνιανη | |
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  Kastaniani | |
| Coordinates: 40°11′N 20°50′E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Epirus |
| Regional unit | Ioannina |
| Municipality | Konitsa |
| Municipal unit | Mastorochoria |
| Elevation | 880 m (2,890 ft) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Community | 140 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Vehicle registration | ΙΝ |
Name
In a monograph (1971) by Chrystos Gasios about the village he wrote Kostiani was another form of the placename Kastaniani.[4] The placename stems from the Slavic form Kostanjane and is derived from the toponym Kostanj, from the word kostanъ meaning 'chestnut' and the suffix -jane, used in the formation of words to denote the inhabitant of a region.[4] The Slavic o became a through Greek in the toponym.[4]
Linguist Kostas Oikonomou states toponyms with the suffix jane (-jani) have Slavic words as their subject and the ending did not become productive in Greek, hence attributing the above placename to a production from the Greek noun kastano or kastania is inapplicable.[4]