Mylopotamos, Crete

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Mylopotamos
Μυλοπόταμος
2010 Dimos Mylopotamou.svg
Mylopotamos is located in Greece
Mylopotamos
Mylopotamos
Location within the region
2011 Dimos Mylopotamou.png
Coordinates: 35°22′N 24°45′E / 35.367°N 24.750°E / 35.367; 24.750Coordinates: 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
 (2011)[1]
 • Municipality
14,363
 • Municipality density40/km2 (100/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 .[2] The municipal unit has an area of 360.703 km2 (139.268 sq mi).[3]

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:[2]

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.[4] 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.

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References[]

  1. ^ a b "Απογραφή Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2011. ΜΟΝΙΜΟΣ Πληθυσμός" (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority.
  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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