Mylopotamos
Μυλοπόταμος | |
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Coordinates: 35°22′N 24°45′E / 35.367°N 24.750°E | |
Country | Greece |
Administrative region | Crete |
Regional unit | Rethymno |
Area | |
• Municipality | 360.7 km2 (139.3 sq mi) |
Population (2021)
[1] | |
• Municipality | 12,820 |
• Density | 36/km2 (92/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+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. [2] The municipal unit has an area of 360.703 km2 (139.268 sq mi). [3]
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]
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.
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.