Kouklioi () is a village in the former municipality of Ano Kalamas, Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Pogoni. Population 318 (2021).
Name In the late 19th century scholar Ioannis Lambridis wrote the placename as Koukoulioi. The toponym Kouklioi has two possible etymologies. The first is derived from a Greek surname Koukouli, from the word koukouli 'cocoon', a diminutive of the Latin loan cuculla, related to the Greek koukoula. The placename began as a possessive form, stis Koukoulious, and due to the northern Greek phonetics where the unstressed vowel u was dropped, Koukoulious became pronounced as Kouklous. Later, this plural accusative form was eventually reinterpreted as a nominative plural, resulting in the name Kouklioi.
The second stems from Koklou whereby its possessive form stis Koklous and plural forms Kokloi and Kouklioi arose as the o sound narrowed into a u and the l softened near the i (-oi) sound. Koklou is derived from the surname Koklas which stems from the Albanian word kok/ël meaning 'knot, a burl in wood, loop'.
Demographics Some Aromanians settled in the village following the interwar period.
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