Vikos, Ioannina
Greek village
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Vikos (Greek: Βίκος, before 1955: Βετσικόν, Vetsikon)[2][3] is a village in the municipality of Zagori, in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. It is part of the community of Aristi. The village is located on a hill above the Vikos Gorge and the Voidomatis river has its main sources below the settlement.[4] Vikos borders the Vikos-Aoos National Park.
Vikos
Βίκος | |
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Settlement | |
View of the Vikos Gorge from the village of Vikos | |
  Vikos Location within Greece | |
| Coordinates: 39°58′N 20°44′E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Epirus |
| Regional unit | Ioannina |
| Municipality | Zagori |
| Municipal unit | Central Zagori |
| Community | Aristi |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 27 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Name
The toponym has been rendered as Vovetsikon and Vovitsikon.[4] The placename is Slavic and has two possible derivations.[4] The first is from the combination of the Slavic preposition v(o) 'in' and the Slavic noun vysokъ 'high place', rendered in Bulgarian and Serbian as visok and in Russian vysokij.[4] Within the toponym, the s became ts, followed by the anomalous deletion of the initial syllable vo- and the paretymological influence of the Greek adjectival suffix -ikos.[4]
The second derivation is from the Slavic noun bobъ 'bean' and the suffix -isko or -ьsko, with which nouns are formed to indicate a place where something exists.[4] From the phonetic form bobisko emerged bobitsko, where sk became tsk in Bulgarian, a change observed in the 14th century. This evolved into vovitsko with the hellenisation of b-b into v-v in Greek and the anomalous deletion of the syllable vo- and the paretymological influence of the suffix -ikos.[5] The linguist Kostas Oikonomou stated the form Bobetsikon is an incorrect restoration.[6]