Magnesia Prefecture
Magnesia (Greek Μαγνησία, AltGr. Transcription magnesia ) until 2010 was one of the four prefectures of the administrative region of Thessaly in Greece. The name is derived from the name of a Macedonian tribe, the magnet from. The prefecture was created in 1947 by Department of Larisa. With the administrative reform of 2010, the prefecture was abolished and in two regional districts ( Magnesia and Sporades, the latter comprises the three island communities ) of the Thessaly region divided, but apart from the allocation of seats in the Regional Council have no political significance.
Geography
Magnesia, the easternmost independent landscape of Thessaly, with the mountains Ossa and Pelion, originally populated by Thracians north peninsula located on Evia Pagasitic Gulf.
To Prefecture Magnesia was the part of the archipelago of the Northern Sporades.
History
On the peninsula was earlier a Greek colony. The town of the same name Magnesia on the Meander in Caria ( Ionia ), north of the Great Meander and located on the eastern slope of the thorax in Asia Minor, founded by colonists from the Thessalian Magnesia. Another magnesia was located further north on the Hermus in Lydia, which was probably also founded by the magnet.
Most important ancient city on the peninsula was Demetria. Magnesia to have been mastered at an early period of Pelasgians who oppressed the inhabitants of the land, the Penestae, similar in Sparta the Helots as all Thessaly. After that, the Thessalians, which should have been Illyrian descent old view and had immigrated from Epirus came.
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