Mylopotamos, Crete

Mylopotamos Μυλοπόταμος
Mylopotamos
Location within the region
Coordinates: 35°22′N 24°45′E / 35.367°N 24.750°ECoordinates: 35°22′N 24°45′E / 35.367°N 24.750°E
Country	Greece
Administrative region	Crete
Regional unit	Rethymno
Area
• Municipality	337.9 km^2 (130.5 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Municipality	14,363
• Municipality density	43/km^2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

Mylopotamos (Greek: Μυλοπόταμος; Mylopotamus in Latin) is a municipality in Rethymno regional unit, on Crete, southern Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Perama.^[2]

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]

• 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.^[3] 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 20the century into titular see of Eleutherna.

References

1. "Απογραφή Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2011. ΜΟΝΙΜΟΣ Πληθυσμός" (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority.
2. Kallikratis law Greece Ministry of Interior (Greek)
3. "Detailed census results 1991" (PDF). (39 MB) (Greek) (French)