Vikos (, before 1955: ÃÂõÃÂÃÂùúÃÂý, Vetsikon) is a village in the municipality of Zagori, in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. It is part of the community of Aristi. The village is located on a hill above the Vikos ravine and the Voidomatis river has its main sources below the settlement. Vikos borders the Vikos-Aoos National Park.
The toponym is has been rendered as Vovetsikon, Vovetsikon and Vovitsikon. The placename is Slavic and has two possible derivations. The first is from the combination of the Slavic preposition v(o) 'you' and the Slavic noun vysokÃÂ 'high place', rendered in Bulgarian and Serbian as visok and in Russian vysokij. Within the toponym the s become ts, the anominal deletion of the initial syllable vo- and the paretymological influence of the adjectival suffix -ikos in Greek.
The second from the Slavic noun bobÃÂ 'bean' and the suffix -isko or -ÃÂsko with which nouns are formed to indicate a place where something exists. From the phonetic form bobisko emerged the form bobitsko where sk became tsk in Bulgarian (a change observed in the 14th century) and vovitsko with hellenisation of b-b into v-v in Greek and with the anominal deletion of the syllable vo- and the paretymological influence of the suffix -ikos. Linguist Kostas Oikonomou states the form Bobetsikon is an incorrect restoration.
The village is inhabited by Greeks.
In 1951, the village had 50 inhabitants. In the 2021 census, it recorded 27 inhabitants.