Mylopotamos, Crete

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Mylopotamos
Μυλοπόταμος
Municipality
Mylopotamos is located in Greece
Mylopotamos
Mylopotamos
Location within the region
Coordinates: 35°22′N 24°45′E / 35.367°N 24.750°E / 35.367; 24.750
CountryGreece
Administrative regionCrete
Regional unitRethymno
Area
 • Municipality360.7 km2 (139.3 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)
 • Municipality12,820
 • Density36/km2 (92/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Mylopotamos (Greek: Μυλοπόταμος) is a municipality in Rethymno regional unit, on Crete, southern Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Perama. The municipal unit has an area of 360.703 km2 (139.268 sq mi).

Municipality

The municipality Mylopotamos was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, which became municipal units:

Former Province

The province of Mylopotamos (Greek: Επαρχία Μυλοποτάμου) was one of the provinces of Rethymno Prefecture. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipalities Mylopotamos and Anogeia. It was abolished in 2006.

Ecclesiastical history

Modern Lefterna was the seat since 1212 of a Latin Roman Catholic Diocese of Milopotamus, which was suppressed in 1669 and turned into a Latin Titular bishopric of lowest (episcopal), which had its name changed in the 20th century into titular see of Eleutherna.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b "ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
  3. ^ "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece., former municipalities Geropotamos and Kouloukonas and municipal departments Axos and Zoniana from Anogeia.
  4. ^ "Detailed census results 1991" (PDF). (39 MB) (in Greek and French)
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