Rigas Feraios ( el, Ρήγας Φεραίος, translit=Rígas Feréos, ) is a municipality in the Magnesia regional unit,

Thessaly Thessaly ( el, Θεσσαλία, translit=Thessalía, ; ancient Thessalian: , ) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, The ...

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. The seat of the municipality is the town

Velestino Velestino ( el, Βελεστίνο; rup, Velescir) is a town in the Magnesia regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality Rigas Feraios. Location It is situated at elevation on a hillside, at the southeastern end o ...

. The municipality has an area of . The municipality was named after the Greek writer and revolutionary

Rigas Feraios Rigas Feraios ( el, Ρήγας Φεραίος , sometimes ''Rhegas Pheraeos''; rup, Riga Fereu) or Velestinlis (Βελεστινλής , also transliterated ''Velestinles''); 1757 – 24 June 1798), born as Antonios Rigas Velestinlis ( el ...

, whose hometown was Velestino.

Municipality

The municipality Rigas Feraios was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units: * Feres * Karla * Keramidi

References

Municipalities of Thessaly Populated places in Magnesia (regional unit) {{Thessaly-geo-stub