The decentralized administrations (, ''apokentroménes dioikíseis'') is a tier of the Greek public administration of

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. They are not a Local Self-Government Organization, although they supervise the Administrative Regions and Municipalities within their territory. They were created in January 2011 as part of a far-reaching reform of the country's administrative structure, the

Kallikratis reform The Kallikratis Programme () is the common name of Greek law 3852/2010 of 2010, a major administrative reform in Greece. It brought about the second major reform of the country's administrative divisions following the 1997 Kapodistrias reform. ...

(Law 3852/2010). They enjoy both administrative and financial autonomy and exercise devolved state powers in

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and

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and

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. Beyond that, they are tasked with supervising the first and second-level

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bodies: the

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and

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

. They are run by a government-appointed general secretary, assisted by an advisory council drawn from the regional governors and the representatives of the municipalities.

List of decentralized administrations

Decentralized Administration of Attica, with the capital of

Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...

Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace The Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace () is one of the seven Decentralized administrations of Greece, decentralized administrations of Greece, consisting of the Administrative regions of Greece, peripheries of Central Macedonia ...

, with the capital of

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...

Decentralized Administration of Epirus and Western Macedonia The Decentralized Administration of Epirus and Western Macedonia () is one of the seven decentralized administrations of Greece, consisting of the peripheries of Epirus and Western Macedonia. Seated in Ioannina, Epirus, it is currently led by Ac ...

, with the capital of

Ioannina Ioannina ( ' ), often called Yannena ( ' ) within Greece, is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina (regional unit), Ioannina regional unit and of Epirus (region), Epirus, an Modern regions of Greece, administrative region in northwester ...

Decentralized Administration of Thessaly and Central Greece The Decentralized Administration of Thessaly and Central Greece () is one of the seven Decentralized administrations of Greece, decentralized administrations of Greece, consisting of the Administrative regions of Greece, peripheries of Thessaly an ...

, with the capital of

Larissa Larissa (; , , ) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region in Greece. It is the fifth-most populous city in Greece with a population of 148,562 in the city proper, according to the 2021 census. It is also the capital of the Larissa ...

Decentralized Administration of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian The Decentralized Administration of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian () is one of the seven decentralized administrations of Greece, consisting of the regions of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands. Its seat is in Patras, ...

, with the capital of

Patras Patras (; ; Katharevousa and ; ) is Greece's List of cities in Greece, third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens. The city is built at the foot of Mount Panachaiko ...

Decentralized Administration of the Aegean The Decentralized Administration of the Aegean () is one of the seven decentralized administrations of Greece, consisting of the regions of North Aegean and South Aegean. Seated in Piraeus, it is currently led by Acting Secretary-General Nikos Th ...

, with the capital of

Piraeus Piraeus ( ; ; , Ancient: , Katharevousa: ) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located southwest of Athens city centre along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf in the Ath ...

Decentralized Administration of Crete The Decentralized Administration of Crete () is one of the seven decentralized administrations of Greece, solely consisting of the region of Crete. Its seat is in Heraklion. Formation and tasks Decentralized Administrations were created in Jan ...

, with the capital of

Heraklion Heraklion or Herakleion ( ; , , ), sometimes Iraklion, is the largest city and the administrative capital city, capital of the island of Crete and capital of Heraklion (regional unit), Heraklion regional unit. It is the fourth largest city in G ...

Monastic community of Mount Athos The monastic community of Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox community of monks around Mount Athos, Greece, who hold the status of an autonomous region with its own sovereignty within Greece and the European Union, as well as the combined rights ...

, (excluded from the Kallikratis Plan)

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