Mayor of Ioannina | |
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Δήμαρχος Ιωαννιτών | |
Incumbent Thomas Begas since 1 January 2024 | |
Website | https://ioannina.gr/ |
The mayor of Ioannina is the head of Ioannina.
Name | Term start | Term end |
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Abountin Bey | 1870 [1] | - |
Yaya Bey Abdullah Pasha | 1871 [1] | 1890 |
Mehmet Emin Efendi | 1893 [1] | 1893 [1] |
Chairi Patanta | 1893 [1] | 1895 [1] |
Sestik Pasha | January 1896 [1] | 1898 [1] |
Chairi Patanta | 1898 [1] | 1900 [1] |
Christakis Sakellarios | 1900 [1] | - |
Name | Term start | Term end |
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Christakis Sakelarios | - | ? |
Celachoudin Teliatagas | - | 1910 [1] |
Yaya Bey Abdullah Pasha | 1910 [1] | - |
Name | Term start | Term end |
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Yaya Bey Abdullah Pasha | 1913 [2] [1] | 20 March 1916 [2] [1] |
Georgios Ioannidis | 21 March 1916 [2] [1] | 2 November 1921 [2] [1] |
Vasileios Pirsinelas | 3 November 1921 [2] [1] | 20 February 1923 [2] [1] |
Georgios Stavridis | 21 February 1923 [2] [1] | - |
Name | Term start | Term end |
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Georgios Stavridis | - | 22 December 1925 [2] [1] |
Vasileios Pirsinelas | 23 December 1925 [2] [1] | 4 August 1929 [2] [1] |
Dimitrios Vlachlidis | 5 August 1929 [2] [1] | - |
Name | Term start | Term end |
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Dimitrios Vlachlidis | - | 17 June 1941 [2] [1] |
Name | Term start | Term end |
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Axis occupation (1941–1944) | ||
Commanders of occupation troops | 18 June 1941 [1] | 15 October 1944 [1] |
Name | Term start | Term end |
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Petros Apostolidis | 25 December 1944 [2] [1] | 25 March 1945 [2] [1] |
Dimitrios Vlachlidis | 26 March 1945 [2] [1] | 1 September 1950 [2] [1] |
Gerasimos Kourouklis | 2 September 1950 [2] [1] | 19 May 1951 [2] [1] |
Theodoros Theodoridis | 20 May 1951 [2] [1] | 31 December 1954 [2] [1] |
Grigorios Sakkas | 1 January 1955 [2] [1] | 1964 [2] [1] |
Georgios Melanidis | 7 August 1964 [2] [1] | - |
Christoforos Kostadimas | 16 August 1964 [2] [1] | 24 June 1965 [2] |
Spiros Katsadimas | 1 July 1965 [2] [1] | 10 April 1967 [2] [1] |
Alekos Sofis | 11 April 1967 [2] [1] | 21 April 1967 [2] [1] |
Greek Junta (1967–1974) | ||
Nikolaos Ntasios | 23 April 1967 [2] [1] | September 1967 [2] |
Spiros Filipou | October 1967 [2] [1] | August 1973 [2] |
Ioannis Kamperis | September 1973 [2] | October 1973 [2] |
Panagiotis Tzoumas | October 1973 [2] | August 1974 [2] |
Name | Term start | Term end |
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Alexandros Pikoulas | 16 October 1974 [2] | March 1975 [2] |
Konstantinos Begas | May 1975 [2] | 31 December 1978 [2] |
Konstantinos Frontzos | 19 January 1979 [2] | 30 January 1980 [2] |
Theodoros Georgiadis | 31 January 1980 [2] | 31 December 1982 [2] |
Spiros Katsadimas | 1 January 1983 [2] | 12 September 1984 [2] |
Charilaos Tolis | 13 September 1984 [2] | 31 December 1986 [2] |
Filipos Filios | 1 January 1987 | 31 December 1994 |
Eleftherios Glinavos | 1 January 1995 [2] | 31 December 1998 [2] |
Anastasios Papastavrou | 1 January 1999 [2] | - |
Name | Term start | Term end |
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Anastasios Papastavrou | - | 31 December 2002 [2] |
Nikolaos Gontas | 1 January 2003 [2] | 31 December 2010 [2] |
Filipos Filios | 1 January 2011 | 31 August 2014 |
Thomas Begas | 1 September 2014 | 31 August 2019 [2] |
Moses Elisaf | 1 September 2019 | 17 February 2023 [3] |
Dimitris Papageorgiou | 28 February 2023 [4] | 31 December 2023 |
Thomas Begas | 1 January 2024 [5] |
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