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Amari (municipality)

Field	Value
name	Amari
name_local	Αμάρι
type	municipality
image_map	2011 Dimos Amariou.png
periph	Crete
periphunit	Rethymno
pop_municipality	5572
area_municipality	277.3
pop_community	189
population_as_of	2021
coordinates
seat	Agia Foteini

Amari () is a village and a municipality in Rethymno regional unit, Crete, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Agia Foteini. The municipal unit has an area of 277.285 km2. One of the major geographic features of Amari is the Amari Valley, a landform of high elevation known for olive cultivation. It is thought that Monastiraki was developed by Phaistos inhabitants founding a satellite center as they pushed out into the Amari Valley.

Municipality

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

Kourites
Sivritos

Province

The province of Amari () was one of the provinces of the Rethymno Prefecture. It had the same territory as the present municipality. It was abolished in 2006.

References

"ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text". [[Government Gazette (Greece).
"Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)". National Statistical Service of Greece.
[http://crete.wordpress.com/crete-articles/lotus-land-the-amari-valley-crete/ Crete: Amari Valley]
[http://themodernantiquarian.com/site/10857/phaistos.html#fieldnotes C.Michael Hogan, ''Phaistos Fieldnotes'', The Modern Antiquarian (2007)]
"Detailed census results 1991".

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