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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. 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


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


References

{{Prefectures and provinces of Greece Populated places in Rethymno (regional unit) Municipalities of Crete Provinces of Greece