Post-Byzatine period,modern times

It is not by chance that Athanassios Tsakaloff, one of the founders of the Philike Hetairia, was from Ioannina seem to have been initiated into it. Irrefutable sources bear witness to the action of the Society's members from Ioannina both within the city and within the very court of Ali Pasha. The most important among them are Manthos Iconomou, Al. Noutsos, G. Tourtouris, I. Kolettis, I. Vilaras, Sp. Kolovos etc. From 1819 onwards, Ioannina in addition to being a center of new Hellenism, become the most important political center of national action and enlightenment. In 1822, Ioannina falls to Hoursit Pasha and Ali Pasha is killed in the Monastery of Agios Panteleimonas on the small island in the Pamvotida lake. While the siege of Ioannina is raging, the Greek Revolution starts in March 1821. In view of the large number of Turkish troops stationed in Epirus, the people of Ioannina and Epirus are unable to take an active role in the Revolution. Throughout the war, Ioannina, half-destroyed, remains nonetheless a base from which the Turkish army will strike against the insurrected Roumeli. With the end of the Revolution, Ioannina is not included in the liberated regions, which formed the new Greek nation. Ioannina becomes part of Greece on 21st February 1913. Finally, during WWI, Ioannina is temporarily occupied by Italian troops, between May and September 1917. From then onwards, the city follows the fate of the country.

From 1431 and until the times of Ali Pasha (1788), with the exception of the revolutionary movement of Dionysios (1611) called Slylosophos, no important event, military or otherwise action, is recorded at Ioannina. From 1788 and for 50 years, the city is marked by events of the utmost importance.In 1788, Ali Pasha of Tepelene becomes the ruler of Ioannina, establishing a tyrannical regime. For this entire period, the history of Ali is the history of Ioannina and Epirus as a whole. Ioannina, in spite of the harsh tyranny, keeps developing. During the rule of Ali Pasha, the urban transformation of the city takes place and Ioannina become the most important urban center of prerevolutionary Greece. In particular, Ali Pasha -having his own safety and wealth in mind, curbs the power and persecutes the timariot beys and strengthens the opportunities for the urban development of Ioannina. He repairs the fortness (1812-1815), opens roads towards Arta, Thassaly and Paramythia, subjugates Sterea Ellas and of the population of Ioannina. The majority seem to have embraced the values og the French Revolution. This ideological change is not alien to the clear and undeniable orientation of the population of Ioannina towards the idea of their own liberation and the preaching of Rhigas and of the Philike Hetairia (Society of Friends).
It is not by chance that Athanassios Tsakaloff, one of the founders of the Philike Hetairia, was from Ioannina seem to have been initiated into it. Irrefutable sources bear witness to the action of the Society's members from Ioannina both within the city and within the very court of Ali Pasha. The most important among them are Manthos Iconomou, Al. Noutsos, G. Tourtouris, I. Kolettis, I. Vilaras, Sp. Kolovos etc. From 1819 onwards, Ioannina in addition to being a center of new Hellenism, become the most important political center of national action and enlightenment. In 1822, Ioannina falls to Hoursit Pasha and Ali Pasha is killed in the Monastery of Agios Panteleimonas on the small island in the Pamvotida lake. While the siege of Ioannina is raging, the Greek Revolution starts in March 1821. In view of the large number of Turkish troops stationed in Epirus, the people of Ioannina and Epirus are unable to take an active role in the Revolution. Throughout the war, Ioannina, half-destroyed, remains nonetheless a base from which the Turkish army will strike against the insurrected Roumeli. With the end of the Revolution, Ioannina is not included in the liberated regions, which formed the new Greek nation. Ioannina becomes part of Greece on 21st February 1913. Finally, during WWI, Ioannina is temporarily occupied by Italian troops, between May and September 1917. From then onwards, the city follows the fate of the country.