Rethymno (regional unit)

Rethymno Περιφερειακή ενότητα Ρεθύμνου
Regional unit
Municipalities of Rethymno regional unit
Rethymno regional unit within Greece
Coordinates: 35°15′N 24°35′E / 35.250°N 24.583°E / 35.250; 24.583Coordinates: 35°15′N 24°35′E / 35.250°N 24.583°E / 35.250; 24.583
Country	Greece
Region	Crete
Capital	Rethymno
Area
• Total	1,496 km² (578 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	85,609
• Density	57/km² (150/sq mi)
Postal codes	74x xx
Area codes	283x0
ISO 3166 code	GR-93
Car plates	ΡΕ
Website	www.rethymnon.gr

Rethymno (Greek: Περιφερειακή ενότητα Ρεθύμνου) is one of the four regional units of Crete, Greece. Its capital is the city of Rethymno. Today its main income is tourism. The countryside is also based economically on agriculture and herding.

Administration

The regional unit Rethymno is subdivided into 5 municipalities. These are (number as in the map in the infobox):^[1]

Prefecture

The Rethymno prefecture (Greek: Νομός Ρεθύμνου or Ρεθύμνης) was created while Crete was still an autonomous state, and was preserved after the island joined Greece in 1913. As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the Rethymno regional unit was created out of the former prefecture. The prefecture had the same territory as the present regional unit. At the same time, the municipalities were reorganised, according to the table below.^[1]

New municipality	Old municipalities	Seat
Agios Vasileios	Lampi	Spili
Agios Vasileios	Foinikas	Spili
Amari	Kourites	Agia Foteini
Amari	Syvritos	Agia Foteini
Anogeia	Anogeia	Anogeia
Mylopotamos	Geropotamos	Perama
	Kouloukonas
	Zoniana
Rethymno	Rethymno	Rethymno
	Arkadi
	Lappa
	Nikiforos Fokas

Provinces

Rethymno Province - Rethymno
Agios Vasileios Province - Spili
Amari Province - Amari
Mylopotamos Province - Perama

Note: Provinces no longer hold any legal status in Greece.

Main towns

The main towns of the regional unit Rethymno are (ranked by 2011 census population):

Rethymno 34,300
Atsipopoulo 4,947
Anogeia 2,379

Notable people

References

1 2 "Kallikratis reform law text" (PDF).

Administrative division of the Crete Region

Area 8,336 km² (3,219 sq mi) Population 623,065 (as of 2011) Municipalities 24 (since 2011) Capital Heraklion

Regional unit of Chania	Apokoronas Chania Gavdos Kantanos-Selino Kissamos Platanias Sfakia

Regional unit of Heraklion	Archanes-Asterousia Faistos Gortyna Heraklion Hersonissos Malevizi Minoa Pediada Viannos

Regional unit of Lasithi	Agios Nikolaos Ierapetra Oropedio Lasithiou Siteia

Regional unit of Rethymno	Agios Vasileios Amari Anogeia Mylopotamos Rethymno

Regional governor Stavros Arnaoutakis (reelected 2014) Decentralized Administration Crete

Prefectures of Greece

By name

By year established

1800s	1833 Achaea and Elis Aetolia-Acarnania Arcadia Argolis and Corinthia Attica and Boeotia Cyclades Euboea Laconia Messenia Phocis and Locris 1845 Phthiotis and Phocis 1864 Corfu Kefallinia Lefkada Zakynthos 1882 Arta Larissa Trikala 1899 Achaea Argolis Attica^c Boeotia Corinthia Elis Evrytania Karditsa Lacedaemon Lakoniki Magnesia Phocis Phthiotis Trifylia

1900s	1912 Chania Heraklion Lasithi Rethymno Sfakia 1914 Thessaloniki 1915 Argyrokastron^b Chalkidiki Chios Drama^d Florina Ioannina Kavala^d Korytsa^b Kozani Lesbos Preveza Samos Serres 1920 Adrianople^a Evros^d Kallipolis^a Rhaedestos^a Rhodope^d Saranta Ekklisies^a 1930–1944 Pella Kilkis Thesprotia Kastoria Xanthi^d 1947 Dodecanese Imathia Pieria 1964 Grevena Piraeus

^a In Eastern Thrace or ^b Northern Epirus, outside present-day Greece.
^c From 1971, Attica consisted of four prefecture-level units: Athens, East Attica, Piraeus and West Attica. From 1994, Athens and Piraeus were grouped into a single super-prefecture.
^d From 1994, Drama / Kavala / Xanthi and Evros / Rhodope prefectures were grouped into super-prefectures.

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