Agios Vasileios ( el, Άγιος Βασίλειος) is a village and a municipality in

Rethymno Rethymno ( el, Ρέθυμνο, , also ''Rethimno'', ''Rethymnon'', ''Réthymnon'', and ''Rhíthymnos'') is a city in Greece on the island of Crete. It is the capital of Rethymno regional unit, and has a population of more than 30,000 inhabitants ( ...

regional unit,

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. The seat of the municipality is the village

Spili Spili ( el, Σπήλι) is a village in Rethymno regional unit, Crete, Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is locat ...

. The municipality has an area of .

Municipality

The municipality Agios Vasileios was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units: * Foinikas *

Lampi Lampi ( el, Λάμπη) is a former municipality in the Rethymno regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Agios Vasileios, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an are ...

Province

The province of Agios Vasileios ( el, Επαρχία Αγίου Βασιλείου) was one of the

provinces A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outsi ...

of the Rethymno Prefecture. It had the same territory as the present municipality. It was abolished in 2006.

References

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