Rethymno (regional unit)

The Regional District of Rethymno (Greek Periferiaki Enotita Rethymnou ) is one of four regional districts of the Greek region of Crete with the main town of Rethymno. He was eingereichtet after connecting Crete to Greece in 1915 as the Prefecture and initially included the province of Sfakia, in 1925 the prefecture of Chania connected. With the Greek administrative reform of 2010, the prefecture was abolished, the competencies were divided on the region and the numerically much reduced communities. Since then, the area exists as a regional district is continuing, which sends seven MPs in the Cretan Regional Council, in addition, however, has no political significance. It includes the municipalities of Agios Vasilios, Amari, Anoghia, Mylopotamou and Rethymno.

The area of Rethymno lies between Chania and Heraklion in the west to the east in the western part of the Region of Crete.

Topographically, the regional district includes the area east of the White Mountains (White Mountains ) to the transition of Psiloritis (also Ida Mountains ) in the Messara plain. The 2,456 -meter-high Psiloreitis, the highest peak in Crete, so that is in the area of the prefecture.

In addition to the uninhabited Paximadia islands in the Messara bay There are no other islands to Rethymno.