The Vjosa or Aoös is a river in northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania. Its total length is about 272 kilometres (169 mi), of which the first 80 kilometres (50 mi) are in Greece, and the remaining 192 kilometres (119 mi) in Albania. Its drainage basin is 6,706 km2 (2,589 sq mi) and its average discharge is 195 m3/s (6,900 cu ft/s). The main tributaries are Voidomatis, Sarantaporos, Drino and Shushicë.
Mouth of Vjosa discharging into the Adriatic
Image: Vjosa River by NASA's Earth Observatory (2022)
View towards the Vjosa valley from Byllis, the chief city and one of the two centres of the Illyrian koinon of the Bylliones.
The personification of Vjosa River. Found in Apollonia
The Pindus is a mountain range located in Northern Greece and Southern Albania. It is roughly 160 km long, with a maximum elevation of 2,637 metres (8652'). Because it runs along the border of Thessaly and Epirus, the Pindus range is known colloquially as the spine of Greece. The mountain range stretches from near the Greek-Albanian border in southern Albania, entering the Epirus and Macedonia regions in northern Greece down to the north of the Peloponnese. Geologically, it is an extension of the Dinaric Alps, which dominate the western region of the Balkan Peninsula.
Pindus in Epirus - The village of Anthochori resting beneath the east face of Kalogiros peak, Lakmos Mountain.
Aspropotamos valley and Milia village in Trikala regional unit
Parts of Southern Pindus
Black Pine Trees commemorative coin
