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Janina

or JOANNINA (yän-ēn'ä), formerly capital of a vilayet in Turkish Albania, on a lake (12 miles long by 3 broad) of the same name, 50 miles inland from the shore opposite the island of Corfu. Its buildings include more than 20 ecclesiastical edifices, and the ruined castle of Ali Pasha, whose headquarters were at Janina. Gold lace is extensively manufactured, as well as mothe place in 1913, and the Treaty of London and Bucharest awarded it to Greece.

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