Katsikas (Greek: Κατσικάς) is the largest municipal district of the City Pamvotida where induced in the Ioannina Prefecture, who belongs to the Epirus region and its residents now far beyond 2566, it was recognized in the community after the liberation of Ioannina six years later on August 7, 1919. But the village he became and from older times. The first peoples they came and builded the village around 1400, from villages of the Souli because they exile from the village elders of the Souli villages. The population as various state historian is constantly changing and always improving. In 1856 the Katsikas had 70 thatched cottages for to live families and their livestocks, an inn (chani) for to sleep the travellers and rest their animals and the Churches of the Taxiarches.
When first founded, the village is certainly not known as to name Katsikas, and opinions differ about the classification have been written yet and traditions. Tradition says that the name comes from someone who was guarding goats say "Katsikas". Other tradition says that the holy man is live in the monastery and his name is Katsikas, and then he died and is planted in the church garden. Residents in the Katsikas are called Katskiots if a man, or Katskiotsa if a woman, and Katskoplu if children.
After the war of the 1940 village was occupied and the day and the night by the Italians (09-04-1941) in the beginning but later (1-11-1944) the Germans and then the Communists. These people they put in prison and killed not only criminals and animal stealers, but also and good peoples and familymens. But then, after nine years of oppression, the Katiskas is become a free village. Today it is a small town and centre of the City Pambvotis.
The villagers are farmers, poultry and other urban occupations. Some women work in bars such as Johnny bar and Lialios, which is very famous and popular to the soldiers. Katsikas very old had attained educational level. During the Turkish occupation the teacher pay their own residents and the Cathedral. In committee for paying schools (eforia) were many learned mens of old times, like Markos Ypsilantis, Anastasios Tositsas and Manthos Kallergis. From Katsikas came scientist Dimitris Maroulis, born in 1840. He graduated from the Zosimaia school and then attended the University of Athens and then studied in Germany. When he finished his studies, he returned to live in Serres, where he worked in the Didaskaleio of the Serres (a big school). He never returned to Katsikas because of an incident with local priest who called him satan because he wrote that there is no God, it is only a belief. Today his statue is in the main town square (plateia). He is sitting at a big desk, and is holding a book, and next to him is the goat, a symbol of the city where he was born. He wrote many scientific papers and one of them was 'On the bringing up of Greek teachers on pot' printed in Athens in 1888. Fair boasts residents of Katsika for the man who jumped in the era of obscurantism.
From then, many residents of Katsikas they learned to read, also the women. Today, in Katsikas are two primary schools (dhemotika), one small children high school (gimnasio) and one senior high school (lykeio), but the government plans to close the Lykeio because many students did not write well the Panellinies examinations. Newspaper To Sfirodrepano wrote that this plan is a crime of the bourgeois state, oppressing poor farmers and workers of Katsikas. Is also in Katsikas, there is a milk processing school.
The City Pamvotida is located in Katsika due position as a hub for all other municipal departments. In 2011, as part of the governmental resturucturing plan Kapodhestrias, the municipality of Pamvotis was disbanded and will form part of the larger administrative region of Kouradhochoria [1].
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