title: Mylopotamos, Crete
text: # Mylopotamos, Crete
  
  Mylopotamos (Greek: Μυλοπόταμος) is a municipality in Rethymno regional unit, on Crete, southern Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Perama. The municipal unit has an area of 360.703 $km^2$ (139.268 sq mi).
  
  ## Municipality
  
  The municipality Mylopotamos was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, which became municipal units:
  
  * Geropotamos
  * Kouloukonas
  * Zoniana
  * Anogia
  
  ## Former Province
  
  The province of Mylopotamos (Greek: Επαρχία Μυλοποτάμου) was one of the provinces of Rethymno Prefecture. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipalities Mylopotamos and Anogeia. It was abolished in 2006.
  
  ## Ecclesiastical history
  
  Modern Lefterna was the seat since 1212 of a Latin Roman Catholic Diocese of Milopotamus, which was suppressed in 1669 and turned into a Latin Titular bishopric of lowest (episcopal), which had its name changed in the 20th century into titular see of Eleutherna.
  
  