• Source: Mylopotamos, Crete

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:

Geropotamos
Kouloukonas
Zoniana




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


Axus (village)
Vosakou Monastery




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Mylopotamos, Crete
• Mylopotamos
• Kingdom of Candia
• Bali, Greece
• Church of Crete
• Zoniana
• Kouloukonas
• Kostas Mountakis
• AE Mylopotamos F.C.
• Geropotamos