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The largest in size Municipality of the Prefecture of Thesprotia, takes up 1/3 of its total size, covering almost all of it - with the exception of the section of the Municipality of Sagiada - the homonymous province, between the river Kalamas and the Greek-Albanian borders. It covers an area of 490.430.000 m2 and has a population of 9.758 residents.. Indications for the first presence of man in the region, are the stone tools of the end of the Paleolithic period from the cave west of G(T)itani and earthen pots of the Earlier Neolithic period from the cave of Sideris. Potsherds, which may date back to the Copper Era, were found on the NW side of the hill, where the city of Filiates is situated. During the Historic times at the southern part of the region, the N.Kastrini, lived the Kestrinians, in the middle -with Fanoti (Doliani) being the center- lived the Fanotians and on the north, at the borders with Molossia, lived the tribe of the Onopernoi Thesprotoi, a total of about 20.000/25.000 residents.
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