The province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...

s of Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

' onMouseout='HidePop("13976")' href="/topics/Eparchy">eparchy

Eparchy

Eparchy is an anglicized Greek word , authentically Latinized as eparchia and loosely translating as 'rule over something,' like province, prefecture, or territory, to have the jurisdiction over, it has specific meanings both in politics, history and in the hierarchy of the Eastern Christian...

") were sub-divisions of some the country's prefectures

Prefectures of Greece

During the first administrative division of independent Greece in 1833–1836 and then again from 1845 until their abolition with the Kallikratis reform in 2010, the prefectures were the country's main administrative unit...

. From 1887, the provinces were abolished as actual administrative units, but were retained for some state services, especially finance services and education, as well as for electoral purposes. Before the Second World War, there were 139 provinces, and after the war, with the addition of the Dodecanese

Dodecanese

The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, of which 26 are inhabited. Τhis island group generally defines the eastern limit of the Sea of Crete. They belong to the Southern Sporades island group...

 Islands, their number grew to 147. According to the Article 7 of the Code of Prefectural Self-Government (Presidential Decree 30/1996), the provinces constituted a "particular administrative district" within the wider "administrative district" of the prefectures. The provinces were finally abolished after the 2006 local elections

Greek local elections, 2006

The 2006 Greek local elections elected representatives to Greece's 3 super-prefectures, 54 prefectures, provinces, and approximately 1,033 communities and municipalities.The elections took place on Sunday, 15 October 2006 from 7am to 7pm....

, in line with Law 2539/1997, as part of the wide-ranging administrative reform known as the "Kapodistrias

Ioannis Kapodistrias

Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias |Academy of Athens]] Critical Observations about the 6th-Grade History Textbook"): "3.2.7. Σελ. 40: Δεν αναφέρεται ότι ο Καποδίστριας ήταν Κερκυραίος ευγενής." "...δύο ιστορικούς της Aκαδημίας κ.κ...

 Project", and replaced by enlarged municipalities (demoi).

Organization

Provincial administration consisted of two parts: a collective Provincial Council and an eparch . Members of the Provincial Council were the prefectural councillors of the respective province. The eparch or sub-prefect was the prefectural councillor who received the most votes in the prefectural elections.

List

Here is a list of the former provinces of Greece:

• Achaea Prefecture
  • Aigialeia Province - Aigio
    Aigio
    Aigio is a town and a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Aigialeia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. Its population is around 30,000. Aigio is surrounded by trees in the north and cliffs in the...
    
    
  • Kalavryta Province
    Kalavryta Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Kalavryta
    Kalavryta
    Kalavryta is a town and a municipality in the eastcentral part of the peripheral unit of Achaea, Greece. It is the southern terminus of the Kalavryta - Diakopto Road and the eastern terminus of the Patras - Kalavryta Road. It is located approx...
    
    
  • Patras Province
    Patras Province
    Patras Province was a province covering the western part of the Achaea Prefecture. Several parts do not recognize it as a province and are not used in addresses but as a region. The main places includes Patras, Kato Achaia, Ovrya, Rio and Chalandritsa...
    
     - Patras
    Patras
    Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...
    
    
• Aetolia-Acarnania
  Aetolia-Acarnania
  Aetolia-Acarnania is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the regional unit is a combination of the geographic regions Aetolia and Acarnania. Its capital is Missolonghi for historical reasons, with its biggest...
  
  
  • Messolonghi Province - Missolonghi
  • Nafpaktia Province - Nafpaktos
  • Trichonis Province - Agrinio
    Agrinio
    Agrinion is the largest city and municipality of the Aetolia-Acarnania peripheral unit of Greece, with 96,321 inhabitants. It is the economical center of Aetolia-Acarnania, although its capital is the town of Mesolonghi. The settlement dates back to ancient times...
    
    
  • Valtos Province
    Valtos Province
    Valtos Province is one of the five former provinces of Aetolia-Acarnania in Greece. It lies in the north-west part of the prefecture. Its capital was Amfilochia. The Acheloos River was the border of the province to Evrytania. Today the Kremasta artificial lake separates the province from Evrytania...
    
     - Amfilochia
    Amfilochia
    Amfilochia is a town and a municipality in the northwestern part of Aetolia-Acarnania in Greece, on the site of ancient Amfilochia. Under the Ottoman Empire, it was known as Karvassaras ....
    
    
  • Vonitsa
    Vonitsa
    Vonitsa is a town in the northwestern part of Aetolia-Acarnania in Greece, seat of the municipality of Aktio-Vonitsa. Population 4,081 . The town is situated in the bay overlooking the Ambracian Gulf and has a small forested peninsula, the peninsula and its narrow strait is in the northwest of...
    
     & Xiromeros Province - Vonitsa
    Vonitsa
    Vonitsa is a town in the northwestern part of Aetolia-Acarnania in Greece, seat of the municipality of Aktio-Vonitsa. Population 4,081 . The town is situated in the bay overlooking the Ambracian Gulf and has a small forested peninsula, the peninsula and its narrow strait is in the northwest of...
    
    
• Arcadia
  Arcadia
  Arcadia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese. It is situated in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas. In Greek mythology, it was the home of the god Pan...
  
  
  • Gortynia Province - Dimitsana
    Dimitsana
    Dimitsana is a village and a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Gortynia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It is built on the ruins of the ancient town Teuthis...
    
    
  • Kynouria Province
    Kynouria Province
    Kynouria Province was a province in Arcadia Prefecture, Greece.The province, established in the 19th century, covered only the northern half of the ancient namesake region of Cynuria. It was abolished in 2006, and following the 2011 Kallikratis reform, its territory is occupied by the...
    
     - Leonidio
    Leonidio
    Leonidio is a town and a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality South Kynouria, of which it is a municipal unit...
    
    
  • Mantineia Province
    Mantineia Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Tripoli
    Tripoli, Greece
    Tripoli is a city of about 25,000 inhabitants in the central part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. It is the capital of the prefecture of Arcadia and the centre of the municipality of Tripolis, pop...
    
    
  • Megalopoli Province
    Megalopoli Province
    Megalopoli was one of four provinces in Arcadia, Greece. Its seat of government was in Megalopolis.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Megalopoli
    Megalopolis, Greece
    Megalópoli is a town in the western part of the peripheral unit of Arcadia, southern Greece. It is located in the same site as ancient Megalopolis . "Megalopolis" is a Greek word for Great city. When it was founded, in 371 BC, it was the first urbanization in rustic and primitive Arcadia. In...
    
    
• Argolis Prefecture
  • Argos Province
    Argos Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Argos
    Argos
    Argos is a city and a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Argos-Mykines, of which it is a municipal unit. It is 11 kilometres from Nafplion, which was its historic harbour...
    
    
  • Ermionida Province - Kranidi
    Kranidi
    Kranidi is a town and a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Ermionida, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. Some say the name is derived from the word Koronida, while others claim it is from the word...
    
    
  • Nafplia Province
    Nafplia Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Nafplio
• Attica
  Attica
  Attica is a historical region of Greece, containing Athens, the current capital of Greece. The historical region is centered on the Attic peninsula, which projects into the Aegean Sea...
  
   (Traditionally considered a prefecture, but is in fact a super-prefecture (υπερνομαρχία), subdivided further into four prefecture-level administrations)
  • Athens Prefecture
    Athens Prefecture
    The Athens Prefecture was one of the prefectures of Greece. It was part of the Attica region and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture. The capital of the prefecture was the city of Athens. After Lefkada Prefecture it was the second-smallest in Greece, but was the most populous and most densely...
    
    
  • East Attica
    East Attica
    East Attica is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Attica. The capital of the regional unit is the town of Pallini. The regional unit covers the eastern part of the agglomeration of Athens, and also the rural area to its east....
    
    
    • Attica Province
      Attica Province
      -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
      
       - Marathon
      Marathon
      The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...
      
      
    • Mesogeia Province - Koropi
      Koropi
      Koropi , is a suburb in the eastern part of Athens, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality Kropia. The Hymettus mountain is to the west. It has a metro station via subway station...
      
      
    • Lavreotiki Province - Lavrion
  • West Attica
    West Attica
    West Attica is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Attica. The capital of the regional unit is the town of Elefsina. The regional unit covers the western part of the agglomeration of Athens, and the area to its west....
    
    
    • Megaris Province - Megara
      Megara
      Megara is an ancient city in Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Megara was one of the four districts of Attica, embodied in the four mythic sons of King...
      
      
    • Eleusis Province - Eleusis
  • Piraeus Prefecture
    Piraeus Prefecture
    Piraeus Prefecture was one of the prefectures of Greece. It was part of the Attica region and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture. The capital of the prefecture was the city of Piraeus...
    
    
    • Piraeus Province - Piraeus
      Piraeus
      Piraeus is a city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens Urban Area, 12 km southwest from its city center , and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf....
      
      
    • Aegina Province
      Aegina Province
      -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
      
       - Aegina
      Aegina
      Aegina is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island. During ancient times, Aegina was a rival to Athens, the great sea power of the era.-Municipality:The municipality...
      
      
    • Kythira Province
      Kythira Province
      Kythira Province was a province in Piraeus Prefecture, Greece.One of its islands was Kythira.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
      
       - Kythira
      Kythira
      Cythera is an island in Greece, once part of the Ionian Islands. It lies opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is administratively part of the Islands regional unit, which is part of the Attica region , Greece.For many centuries, while naval travel was the only means...
      
      
    • Salamis Province - Salamis
    • Hydra
      Hydra, Saronic Islands
      Hydra is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece, located in the Aegean Sea between the Saronic Gulf and the Argolic Gulf. It is separated from the Peloponnese by narrow strip of water...
      
       & Spetses
      Spetses
      Spetses is an island and a municipality in the Islands regional unit, Attica, Greece. It is sometimes included as one of the Saronic Islands. Until 1948, it was part of the old prefecture of Argolidocorinthia, which is now split into Argolis and Corinthia...
      
       Province - Hydra
      Hydra, Saronic Islands
      Hydra is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece, located in the Aegean Sea between the Saronic Gulf and the Argolic Gulf. It is separated from the Peloponnese by narrow strip of water...
      
      
    • Troezinia Province
      Troezinia Province
      -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
      
       - Methana
      Methana
      Methana is a town and a former municipality on the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Troizinia, of which it is a municipal unit....
      
      
• Boeotia Prefecture
  • Thiva Province
    Thiva Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Thiva (Thebes
    Thebes, Greece
    Thebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain. It played an important role in Greek myth, as the site of the stories of Cadmus, Oedipus, Dionysus and others...
    
    )
  • Livadeia Province
    Livadeia Province
    Livadeia Province was one of the provinces of Greece, located in Boeotia Prefecture.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Livadeia
    Livadeia
    Livadeia is a city in central Greece. It is the capital of the prefecture Boeotia. Livadeia is located 130 km NW of Athens, E of Nafpaktos, ESE of Amfissa and Desfina, SE of Lamia and west of Chalkida. Livadeia is linked with GR-48 and several kilometres west of GR-3. The area around Livadeia...
    
    
• Chalcidice Prefecture
  • Polygyros Province - Polygyros
    Polygyros
    Polygyros is a town and municipality in Central Macedonia, Greece. It is the capital of Chalkidiki.-Geography:Polygyros town is built in the shape of an amphitheatre on a plateau on the south west side of the mountain Cholomontas. It is south of Greek National Road 16...
    
    
  • Arnaia Province
    Arnaia Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Arnaia
    Arnaia
    Arnaia is a town and a former municipality in Chalkidiki, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Aristotelis, of which it is a municipal unit...
    
    
• Chania Prefecture
  Chania Prefecture
  Chania is one of the four regional units of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania. Chania borders only one other regional unit: that of Rethymno to the east. The western part of Crete is bounded to the north by the Cretan Sea, and to the west...
  
  
  • Apokoronas Province - Vamos
    Vamos
    Vamos is a small town and former municipality in the Chania peripheral unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Apokoronas, of which it is a municipal unit...
    
    
  • Kydonia Province
    Kydonia Province
    Kydonia Province was a province of Chania Prefecture, Crete, Greece.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Chania
    Chania
    Chaniá , , also transliterated Chania, Hania, and Xania, older form Chanea and Venetian Canea, Ottoman Turkish خانيه Hanya) is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania peripheral unit...
    
    
  • Kissamos Province
    Kissamos Province
    Kissamos is a province of Crete. It is located in the northwestern corner of the island, in Chania Prefecture. It is in the foothills of the Lefka Ori covering two barren peninsulas and much rugged coastline, as well as relatively fertile agricultural land. This area is also very known for the...
    
     - Kissamos
    Kissamos
    Kissamos is a town and municipality in the west of the island of Crete, Greece. It is part of the Chania peripheral unit and of the former Kissamos Province which covers the northwest corner of the island. The city of Kissamos is also known as Kastelli-Kissamou and often known simply as Kastelli...
    
    
  • Selino Province - Kandanos
    Kandanos
    Kandanos or Kantanos is a town and former municipality in the Chania peripheral unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kantanos-Selino, of which it is a municipal unit. It was part of the former Selino Province which covered the southwest of the...
    
    
  • Sfakia Province
    Sfakia Province
    Sfakia Province was a province of Chania Prefecture, Crete, Greece.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Hora Sfakion
    Hora Sfakion
    Image:Chora Sfakion 1941 evacuation monument.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Monument commemorating the evacuation during WW2 of British and ANZAC forces from Hora Sfakion in May 1941. Click on the left plaque for a closer viewrect 198 536 320 1082 rect 0 0 900 1200...
    
    
• Corfu Prefecture
  Corfu Prefecture
  Corfu is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Ionian Islands. The capital of the regional unit is the town of Corfu. The regional unit consists of the islands of Corfu, Paxoi, Othonoi, Ereikoussa, Mathraki and several smaller islands, all in the Ionian...
  
   (Kerkyra)
  • Corfu Province - Corfu
    Corfu
    Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the edge of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality. The...
    
    
  • Paxi Province - Gaios
    Gaios
    Gaios is the main port on Paxi, the smallest of the seven principal Ionian Islands, in Greece. Gaios is situated on the east coast of the island. It is named after a homonymous pupil of Paul the Apostle, who brought Christianity to the island....
    
    
• Cyclades Prefecture
  • Kea Province
    Kea Province
    -Islands:Kea Province was located in the Cyclades Islands, some of the islands that belonged to the province:* Kea Island* Makronisos...
    
     - Kea
    Kea (island)
    Kea , also known as Gia or Tzia , Zea, and, in Antiquity, Keos , is an island of the Cyclades archipelago, in the Aegean Sea, in Greece. Kea is part of the Kea-Kythnos peripheral unit. Its capital, Ioulis, is inland at a high altitude and is considered quite picturesque...
    
    
  • Naxos Province - Naxos
  • Tinos Province - Tinos
    Tinos
    Tinos is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It is located in the Cyclades archipelago. In antiquity, Tinos was also known as Ophiussa and Hydroessa . The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos...
    
    
  • Andros Province - Andros
    Andros
    Andros, or Andro is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, approximately south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . Its surface is for the most part mountainous, with many fruitful and well-watered valleys. The area is...
    
    
  • Syros
    Syros
    Syros , or Siros or Syra is a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea. It is located south-east of Athens. The area of the island is . The largest towns are Ermoupoli, Ano Syros, and Vari. Ermoupoli is the capital of the island and the Cyclades...
    
     & Mykonos
    Mykonos
    Mykonos is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island spans an area of and rises to an elevation of at its highest point. There are 9,320 inhabitants most of whom live in the largest town, Mykonos, which lies on the west coast. The town is also...
    
     Province - Hermoupolis
  • Paros Province - Paros
    Paros
    Paros is an island of Greece in the central Aegean Sea. One of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about wide. It lies approximately south-east of Piraeus. The Municipality of Paros includes numerous uninhabited offshore islets...
    
    
  • Milos Province
    Milos Province
    -Islands:Milos Province was located in the Cyclades Islands, some of the islands that belonged to the province:* Milos Island* Kimolos* Polyaigos...
    
     - Milos
    Milos
    Milos , is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete...
    
    
  • Amorgos Province - Amorgos
    Amorgos
    Amorgos is the easternmost island of the Greek Cyclades island group, and the nearest island to the neighboring Dodecanese island group. Along with several neighboring islets, the largest of which is Nikouria Island, it comprises the municipality of Amorgos, which has a land area of...
    
    
  • Thera
    Santorini
    Santorini , officially Thira , is an island located in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from Greece's mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago which bears the same name and is the remnant of a volcanic caldera...
    
     Province - Thera
    Santorini
    Santorini , officially Thira , is an island located in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from Greece's mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago which bears the same name and is the remnant of a volcanic caldera...
    
    
• Dodecanese Prefecture
  • Patmos Province - Patmos
    Patmos
    Patmos is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea. One of the northernmost islands of the Dodecanese complex, it has a population of 2,984 and an area of . The highest point is Profitis Ilias, 269 meters above sea level. The Municipality of Patmos, which includes the offshore islands of Arkoi ,...
    
    
  • Kalymnos Province - Kalymnos
    Kalymnos
    Kalymnos, is a Greek island and municipality in the southeastern Aegean Sea. It belongs to the Dodecanese and is located to the west of the peninsula of Bodrum , between the islands of Kos and Leros : the latter is linked to it through a series of islets...
    
    
  • Kos Province - Kos
    Kos
    Kos or Cos is a Greek island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of Gökova/Cos. It measures by , and is from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Kos peripheral unit, which is...
    
    
  • Rhodes Province - Rhodes
    Rhodes
    Rhodes is an island in Greece, located in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007, and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within...
    
    
  • Karpathos
    Karpathos
    Karpathos is the second largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands, in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Together with the neighboring smaller Saria Island it forms the municipality Karpathos, which is part of the Karpathos peripheral unit. From its remote position Karpathos has preserved many...
    
     & Kasos
    Kasos
    Kasos is a Greek island municipality in the Dodecanese. It is the southernmost island in the Aegean Sea, and is part of the Karpathos peripheral unit. As of 2001, its population was 990. The island has been called in , .-Geography:...
    
     Province - Karpathos
    Karpathos
    Karpathos is the second largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands, in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Together with the neighboring smaller Saria Island it forms the municipality Karpathos, which is part of the Karpathos peripheral unit. From its remote position Karpathos has preserved many...
    
    
• Elis Prefecture
  Elis Prefecture
  Elis or Ilia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Greece. It is situated in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula. Its capital is Pyrgos.-Geography:...
  
  
  • Ilia Province - Pyrgos
  • Olympia Province
    Olympia Province
    Olympia Province was one of the provinces of Greece, and one of two in Elis Prefecture.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Andritsaina
    Andritsaina
    Andritsaina is a town and a former municipality in Elis, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Andritsaina-Krestena, of which it is a municipal unit...
    
    
• Euboea Prefecture
  • Chalkida Province
    Chalkida Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Chalkida
  • Istiaeotis Province
    Istiaeotis Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Istiaia
    Istiaia
    Istiaia is a town and a former municipality in Euboea, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Istiaia-Aidipsos, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. Its population is 7,353 . The town is located in the northern end of the island. It was a former...
    
    
  • Karystiea Province - Karystos
    Karystos
    Karystos is a small coastal town on the Greek island of Euboea. It has about 7,000 inhabitants. It lies 129 km south of Chalkis. From Athens it is accessible by ferry via Marmari from the Rafina port...
    
    
  • Skyros
    Skyros
    Skyros is an island in Greece, the southernmost of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Around the 2nd millennium BC and slightly later, the island was known as The Island of the Magnetes where the Magnetes used to live and later Pelasgia and Dolopia and later Skyros...
    
     Island had no province; it was considered a municipality without a province
• Evros Prefecture
  Evros Prefecture
  Evros is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace. Its name is derived from the river Evros, which appears to have been a Thracian hydronym. Evros is the northernmost regional unit. It borders Turkey to the east, across the river Evros, and it...
  
  
  • Alexandroupoli Province
    Alexandroupoli Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Alexandroupoli
    Alexandroupoli
    Alexandroupoli , is a city of Greece and the capital of the Evros peripheral unit in Thrace. Named after King Alexander, it is an important port and commercial center of northeastern Greece.-Name:...
    
    
  • Didymoteicho Province
    Didymoteicho Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Didymoteicho
    Didymoteicho
    Didymóteicho is a town located in the eastern part of the Evros peripheral unit of Thrace, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name. The town sits on a plain and located south east of Svilengrad, south of Edirne, Turkey and Orestiada, west of Uzunköprü, about 20 km north...
    
    
  • Soufli Province
    Soufli Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Soufli
    Soufli
    Soufli is a city in the Evros peripheral unit, Greece, notable for the silk industry that flourished there in the 19th century. The town stands on the eastern slope of the twin hill of Prophet Elias, one of the easternmost spurs on the Rhodope Mountains...
    
    
  • Orestiada Province
    Orestiada Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Orestiada
    Orestiada
    Orestiada is the northeasternmost and northernmost city of Greece and the second largest city of the Evros peripheral unit of Thrace. The population is around 25,000. Orestiada is only 2 km west of the banks of the Evros, which forms a natural border between Greece and Turkey...
    
    
  • Samothrace Province
    Samothrace Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Samothrace
    Samothrace
    Samothrace is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It is a self-governing municipality within the Evros peripheral unit of Thrace. The island is long and is in size and has a population of 2,723 . Its main industries are fishing and tourism. Resources on the island includes granite and...
    
    
• Heraklion Prefecture
  Heraklion Prefecture
  Heraklion is one of the four regional units of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion.-Geography:The regional unit of Heraklion borders on the regional units of Rethymno to the west and Lasithi to the east. Farmlands are situated in the central and the northern parts, at the coast and in...
  
  
  • Temenos Province
    Temenos Province
    Temenos Province was a province of Heraklion Prefecture, Crete, Greece.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Heraklion
    Heraklion
    Heraklion, or Heraclion is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete, Greece. It is the 4th largest city in Greece....
    
    
  • Malevizion Province
    Malevizion Province
    Malevizion Province was a province of Heraklion Prefecture, Crete, Greece.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Agion Myronas
    Gorgolainis
    Gorgolainis is a former municipality in the Heraklion peripheral unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Heraklion, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 3,171 . The seat of the municipality was in Agios Myronas. Another village within the...
    
    
  • Pediada Province
    Pediada Province
    Pediada Province was a province of Heraklion Prefecture, Crete, Greece.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Kasteli
    Kasteli
    Kastelli is a village and a former municipality in the Heraklion peripheral unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Minoa Pediada, of which it is a municipal unit...
    
    
  • Kenourgion Province
    Kenourgion Province
    Kenourgion Province was a province of Heraklion Prefecture, Crete, Greece.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Moires
    Moires
    Moires is a town and a former municipality in the Heraklion peripheral unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Faistos, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 10,857 ....
    
    
  • Pyrgiotissa Province
    Pyrgiotissa Province
    Pyrgiotissa Province was a province of Heraklion Prefecture, Crete, Greece.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Vori
  • Viannos Province
    Viannos Province
    Viannos Province was a province of Heraklion Prefecture, Crete, Greece.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Pefkos
  • Monofatsi Province
    Monofatsi Province
    Monofatsi Province was a province of Heraklion Prefecture, Crete, Greece.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Pirgos
    Tylissos
    Tylisos is a town and a former municipality in the Heraklion peripheral unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Malevizi, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 3,941 in 2001. It is an ancient Minoan peak sanctuary and town...
    
    
• Imathia Prefecture
  Imathia Prefecture
  Imathia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Central Macedonia. The capital of Imathia is the city of Veroia.-Administration:The regional unit Imathia is subdivided into 3 municipalities...
  
  
  • Imathia Province - Veria
    Veria
    Veria is a city built at the foot of Vermion Mountains in Greece. It is a commercial center of Macedonia, the capital of the prefecture of Imathia, the province of Imathia and the seat of a bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church...
    
    
  • Naoussa Province
    Naoussa Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Naoussa
    Naousa, Imathia
    Naousa or Naoussa is a city in the Imathia peripheral unit of Macedonia, Greece. Population 34,441.It is famous for its parks and for its ski resorts...
    
    
• Ioannina Prefecture
  Ioannina Prefecture
  Ioannina is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Epirus region. Its capital is the city of Ioannina. It is the largest regional unit in Epirus, and one of the largest regional units of Greece.-Geography:...
  
  
  • Dodoni Province
    Dodoni Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Ioannina
    Ioannina
    Ioannina , often called Jannena within Greece, is the largest city of Epirus, north-western Greece, with a population of 70,203 . It lies at an elevation of approximately 500 meters above sea level, on the western shore of lake Pamvotis . It is located within the Ioannina municipality, and is the...
    
    
  • Konitsa Province
    Konitsa Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Konitsa
    Konitsa
    Konitsa is a town in Epirus, Greece, near the Albanian border. It lies amphi-theatre shaped on a mountain slope of the Pindos mountain range, overlooking the valley where the river Aoos meets the river Voidomatis. The valley is used for farming. Konitsa is a regional centre for many small Pindos...
    
    
  • Metsovo Province
    Metsovo Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Metsovo
    Metsovo
    Metsovo is a town in Epirus on the mountains of Pindus in northern Greece, between Ioannina to the north and Meteora to the south. The largest centre of Vlach life in Greece, Metsovo is bypassed by GR-6 and also by Egnatia Odos Motorway....
    
    
  • Pogonio Province
    Pogonio Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Delvinaki
    Delvinaki
    Delvinaki is a former municipality in the Ioannina peripheral unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pogoni, of which it is a municipal unit. Its 2001 population was 751 for the village and 2,933 for the municipal district...
    
    
• Kavala Prefecture
  Kavala Prefecture
  Kavala is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the of East Macedonia and Thrace. Its capital is the town of Kavala. Kavala regional unit is the easternmost within the geographical region of Macedonia.-Geography:...
  
  
  • Philippi Province - Kavala
    Kavala
    Kavala , is the second largest city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala peripheral unit. It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos...
    
    
  • Paggeon Province
    Paggeon Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Eleftheroupoli
    Eleftheroupoli
    Eleftheroupoli is a town and a former municipality in the Kavala peripheral unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pangaio, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. At the 2001 census, the municipal unit's population was...
    
    
  • Nestos Province
    Nestos Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Chrysoupoli
    Chrysoupoli
    Chrysoupoli is a town and a former municipality in the Kavala peripheral unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nestos, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. Population 15,678 . It was known as "Sarışaban" during...
    
    
  • Thasos Province
    Thasos Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Thasos
    Thasos
    Thasos or Thassos is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, close to the coast of Thrace and the plain of the river Nestos but geographically part of Macedonia. It is the northernmost Greek island, and 12th largest by area...
    
    
• Kefallinia
  Kefallinia Prefecture
  The Cephalonia Prefecture was a prefecture in Greece, containing the Ionian islands of Cephalonia and Ithaca. In 2011 the prefectural self-government was abolished and the territory is now covered by the peripheral units of Cephalonia and Ithaca.-Provinces:...
  
  
  • Kraneas Province - Argostoli
    Argostoli
    Argostoli is a town and a former municipality on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kefalonia, of which it is a municipal unit...
    
    
  • Paliki Province - Lixouri
    Lixouri
    Lixouri is the main town on the peninsula of Paliki in the island of Kefalonia, one of the Ionian Islands of western Greece. Lixouri is the second largest community in Kefalonia after Argostoli and before Sami and is the capital of the small peninsula...
    
    
  • Ithaca Province - Ithaca
    Ithaca
    Ithaca or Ithaka is an island located in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of and a little more than three thousand inhabitants. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and...
    
    
• Kilkis Prefecture
  Kilkis Prefecture
  Kilkis is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Central Macedonia. Its capital is the city of Kilkis.-Geography:The mountains near Kilkis are Paiko to the west, parts of the western part of Kerkini to the northeast and Krousia to the east...
  
  
  • Kilkis Province
    Kilkis Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Kilkis
    Kilkis
    Kilkis is an industrial city in Central Macedonia, Greece. As of 2001 there were 17,430 people living in the city proper, 24,812 people living in the municipal unit, and 56,336 in the municipality of Kilkis. It is also the capital city of the regional unit of Kilkis.-Name:Kilkis is located in a...
    
    
  • Paionia Province
    Paionia Province
    Paionia is the western Province of Kilkis Prefecture. Its capital is Goumenissa. According to the , as of 2001 the population was:-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Goumenissa
    Goumenissa
    Goumenissa is a small town, capital of the former Paionia Province, Kilkis regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Paionia, of which it is a municipal unit. The town sits on the southeastern part of the Paiko mountain range...
    
    
• Kozani Prefecture
  Kozani Prefecture
  Kozani is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Macedonia. Its capital is the city of Kozani.-Geography:Kozani borders the regional units of Kastoria to the west and northwest, Florina to the north, Pella to the northeast, Imathia and Pieria to the east, Larissa ...
  
  
  • Kozani Province
    Kozani Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Kozani
    Kozani
    Kozani is a city in northern Greece, capital of Kozani regional unit and of West Macedonia region. It is located in the western part of Macedonia, in the northern part of the Aliakmonas river valley...
    
    
  • Eordea Province - Ptolemaida
    Ptolemaida
    Ptolemaida is a town and a former municipality in Kozani peripheral unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Eordaia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit...
    
    
  • Voio Province
    Voio Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Siatista
    Siatista
    Siatista is a town and a former municipality in Kozani peripheral unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Voio, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It lies 28 km southwest of the city Kozani. It was built on the austral...
    
    
• Laconia Prefecture
  • Gytheio Province
    Gytheio Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Gytheio
    Gytheio
    Gytheio , the ancient Gythium or Gytheion , is a town and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality East Mani, of which it is a municipal unit. It was the seaport of Sparta, some 40 km north...
    
    
  • Epidavros Liminas Province - Molaoi
    Molaoi
    Molaoi is a town and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Monemvasia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The population in 2001 was 5,597, of which 3,021 lived in the town itself.-External links:* *...
    
    
  • Lacedemonia Province - Sparta
    Sparta
    Sparta or Lacedaemon, was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the banks of the River Eurotas in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. It emerged as a political entity around the 10th century BC, when the invading Dorians subjugated the local, non-Dorian population. From c...
    
    
  • Oitylo Province
    Oitylo Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Areopoli
    Areopoli
    Areopoli is a town on the Mani Peninsula, Laconia, Greece. The word Areopoli means "city of Ares", the ancient Greek god of war. It was the seat of Oitylo municipality. Areopoli was called Tsimova by the invading Slavs during the 7th century AD...
    
    
• Larissa Prefecture
  Larissa Prefecture
  Larissa is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Thessaly. Its capital is the city of Larissa. -Geography:...
  
  
  • Farsala Province
    Farsala Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Farsala
    Farsala
    Farsala , known in Antiquity as Φάρσαλος, Pharsalos or Pharsalus, is a city in southern Thessaly, in Greece. Farsala is located in the southern part of Larissa regional unit, and is one of its largest towns. The city is linked with GR-3, the old highway linking Larissa and Lamia and is also...
    
    
  • Agia Province
    Agia Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Agia
    Agia, Larissa
    Agia is a village and a municipality in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. Agia is located east of Larissa and south of Melivoia. The Mavrovouni mountains dominate the south and the Aegean Sea lies to the east...
    
    
  • Larissa Province
    Larissa Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Larissa
    Larissa
    Larissa is the capital and biggest city of the Thessaly region of Greece and capital of the Larissa regional unit. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by road and rail with the port of Volos, the city of Thessaloniki and Athens...
    
    
  • Tyrnavos Province
    Tyrnavos Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Tyrnavos
    Tyrnavos
    Tyrnavos is a municipality in the Larissa regional unit, of the Thessaly region of Greece. Tyrnavos is the prefecture's third largest community within the Larissa prefecture. The town is near the mountains and the Thessalian Plain. The river Titarisios, a tributary of the Pineios, flows through...
    
    
  • Olympos Province - Elassona
    Elassona
    Elassona is a town and a municipality in the Larissa peripheral unit in Greece. During antiquity Elassona was called Oloosson - Ὀλοοσσών and was a town of the ancient "Perrhaebi", known today as Thessaly. It is situated at the foot of Mount Olympus...
    
    
• Lasithi Prefecture
  • Ierapetra Province - Ierapetra
    Ierapetra
    Ierapetra is a town in the southeast of the Greek island of Crete and a municipality of Crete region.-History:The town of Ierapetra is located on the southeast coast of Crete, along the beach of Ierapetra Bay. It lies south of Agios Nikolaos and southwest of Sitia and is an important regional...
    
    
  • Sitia Province - Sitia
    Sitia
    Sitia refers both to the port town, with 8,900 inhabitants and to the municipality with 19,209 inhabitants in Lasithi, Crete . It lies to the east of Agios Nikolaos and to the northeast of Ierapetra. Sitia port is on the Sea of Crete, which is a part of the Aegean Sea and is one of the economic...
    
    
  • Mirampellos Province - Agios Nikolaos
    Agios Nikolaos, Crete
    Agios Nikolaos is a coastal town on the Greek island of Crete, lying east of the island's capital Heraklion, north of the town of Ierapetra and west of the town of Sitia. In the year 2000, the Municipality of Agios Nikolaos, which takes in part of the surrounding villages, claimed around 19,000...
    
    
• Lesbos Prefecture
  Lesbos Prefecture
  Lesbos Prefecture was one of the prefectures of Greece. It consisted of three main islands: Lesbos itself, Lemnos, and the smaller island of Agios Efstratios. In 2011 the prefecture was abolished and the territory is now covered by the peripheral units of Lesbos and Lemnos...
  
  
  • Lemnos Province
    Lemnos Province
    Lemnos was one of the four provinces of Lesbos Prefecture of Greece. It was situated on Lemnos Island.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Myrina
    Myrina, Greece
    Myrina is a former municipality on the island of Lemnos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lemnos, of which it is a municipal unit. It covers the west coast of the island, and has a land area of 82.049 km², about 17.2% of the island's...
    
    
  • Mithymna Province
    Mithymna Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Mithymna
    Mithymna
    Mithymna is a former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lesbos, of which it is a municipal unit. The second most important town of the island, it is located NE of Eressos, N of Plomari and NW of...
    
    
  • Mytilene Province
    Mytilene Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Mytilene
    Mytilene
    Mytilene is a town and a former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lesbos, of which it is a municipal unit. It is the capital of the island of Lesbos. Mytilene, whose name is pre-Greek, is built on the...
    
    
  • Plomari Province
    Plomari Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Plomari
    Plomari
    Plomari is a town and a former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lesbos, of which it is a municipal unit. It is the only sizable coastal settlement in the south, and indeed the second largest town on...
    
    
• Magnesia Prefecture
  Magnesia Prefecture
  Magnesia Prefecture was one of the prefectures of Greece. Its capital was Volos. It was established in 1899 from the Larissa Prefecture. The prefecture was disbanded on 1 January 2011 by the Kallikratis programme, and split into the peripheral units of Magnesia and the Sporades.The toponym is...
  
  
  • Almyros Province
    Almyros Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Almyros
    Almyros
    Almyros is a town and a municipality of the peripheral unit of Magnesia, periphery of Thessaly, Greece. It lies in the center of prosperous fertile plain known as 'Krokio Pedio', which is crossed by torrents, and produces wheat, tobacco, and other crops. Almyros is an important agricultural and...
    
    
  • Northern Sporades Province - Skopelos
    Skopelos
    Skopelos , ancient Peparethos or Peparethus , is a Greek island in the western Aegean Sea. Skopelos is one of several islands which comprise the Northern Sporades island group. The island is located east of mainland Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea and is part of the Thessaly Periphery....
    
    
  • Volos
    Volos
    Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...
    
     & Pelion
    Pelion
    Pelion or Pelium is a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly in central Greece, forming a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea...
    
     Province - Volos
    Volos
    Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...
    
    
• Messinia Prefecture
  • Kalamon Province
    Kalamon Province
    Kalamon Province is a province of Messenia Prefecture, Greece.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Kalamata
    Kalamata
    Kalamata is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The capital and chief port of the Messenia prefecture, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf...
    
    
  • Messene Province
    Messene Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Messene
    Messene
    Messene , officially Ancient Messene, is a Local Community of the Municipal Unit , Ithomi, of the municipality of Messini within the Regional Unit of Messenia in the Region of Peloponnēsos, one of 7 Regions into which the Hellenic Republic has been divided by the Kallikratis...
    
    /Messini
  • Pylia Province
    Pylia Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Pylos
    Pylos
    Pylos , historically known under its Italian name Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pylos-Nestoras, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It was the capital of the former...
    
    
  • Trifyllia Province - Kyparissia
    Kyparissia
    Kyparissia is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Trifylia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The town proper has around 5,708 inhabitants. The town is located on Greek National Road 9,...
    
    
• Pella Prefecture
  Pella Prefecture
  Pella is one of the regional units of Greece, in the geographic region of Macedonia. It is part of the Region of Central Macedonia. It is named after the ancient city of Pella, the capital of ancient Macedonia. The capital of Pella is Edessa....
  
  
  • Almopia Province - Aridaia
    Aridaia
    Aridaía is a town and a former municipality in the Pella regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Almopia, of which it is a municipal unit. It was the capital of the former Almopia eparchy...
    
    
  • Edessa Province
    Edessa Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Edessa
    Edessa, Greece
    Edessa , is a city in northern Greece and the capital of the Pella regional unit, in the Central Macedonia region of Greece. It was also the capital of the defunct province of the same name.-Name:...
    
    
  • Giannitsa Province
    Giannitsa Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Giannitsa
    Giannitsa
    Giannitsa is the largest town and a former municipality in Pella regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pella, of which it is a municipal unit...
    
    
• Phocis Prefecture
  • Doris Province - Lidoriki
    Lidoriki
    Lidoriki is a village and a former municipality in Phocis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Dorida, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. In 2001 the population was 4,225. Its area is 409.5 km² covering nearly one-fifth of Phocis. Lidoriki...
    
    
  • Parnassida Province
    Parnassida Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Amfissa
    Amfissa
    Amfissa is a town and a former municipality in Phocis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Delphi, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It is also the capital of the regional unit of Phocis...
    
    
• Phthiotis Prefecture
  • Phthiotis Province
    Phthiotis Province
    -Borders:*Dorida Province *Parnassida Province *Istiaeotis Province -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Lamia
    Lamia (city)
    Lamia is a city in central Greece. The city has a continuous history since antiquity, and is today the capital of the regional unit of Phthiotis and of the Central Greece region .-Name:...
    
    
  • Domokos Province
    Domokos Province
    Domokos Province was one of the provinces of Greece, at time of abolishment of the provinces it belonged to Phthiotis Prefecture in Central Greece....
    
     - Domokos
    Domokos
    Domokos is a town and a municipality in Phthiotis, Greece. The town Domokos is the seat of the municipality of Domokos and of the former Domokos Province...
    
    
  • Locris Province
    Locris Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
      - Atalanti
    Atalanti
    Atalanti is a town and a former municipality in southeastern Phthiotis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lokroi, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. Atalanti is a known market town, and it was the capital of the former Locris Province....
    
    
• Preveza Prefecture
  Preveza Prefecture
  Preveza is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Epirus region. Its capital is the town of Preveza.-Geography:The regional unit of Preveza is located northwest of the Ambracian Gulf. The Ionian Sea lies to the west. The terrain is mostly hilly. The mountains of Xerovouni are in...
  
  
  • Nikopolis & Parga
    Parga
    Parga, , is a town and municipality located in the northwestern part of the regional unit of Preveza in Epirus, northwestern Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Kanallaki. Parga lies on the Ionian coast between the cities of Preveza and Igoumenitsa...
    
     Province - Parga
    Parga
    Parga, , is a town and municipality located in the northwestern part of the regional unit of Preveza in Epirus, northwestern Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Kanallaki. Parga lies on the Ionian coast between the cities of Preveza and Igoumenitsa...
    
    
  • Preveza
    Preveza
    Preveza is a town in the region of Epirus, northwestern Greece, located at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf. It is the capital of the regional unit of Preveza, which is part of the region of Epirus. An immersed tunnel, completed in 2002 which runs between Preveza and Actium, connects the town...
    
     (city & municipality) was not part of the province
• Rethymno Prefecture
  Rethymno Prefecture
  Rethymno is one of the four regional units of Crete, Greece. Its capital is the city of Rethymno. Today its main income is tourism. The countryside is also based economically on agriculture and herding.-Administration:...
  
  
  • Rethymna Province - Rethymno
    Rethymno
    Rethymno is a city of approximately 40,000 people in Greece, the capital of Rethymno peripheral unit in the island of Crete. It was built in antiquity , even though was never a competitive Minoan centre...
    
    
  • Agios Vasilios Province - Spili
    Lampi
    Lampi is a former municipality in the Rethymno peripheral unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Agios Vasileios, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 6,133 . The seat of the municipality was in Spili....
    
    
  • Amari Province - Amari
  • Mylopotamos Province - Perama
• Rhodope Prefecture
  Rhodope Prefecture
  Rhodope is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace. Its name is derived from the Rhodope Mountains, which cover the northern part of its territory. Together with the regional units Evros and Xanthi, it forms the geographical region of Western...
  
  
  • Komotini Province
    Komotini Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Komotini
    Komotini
    Komotini is a city in Thrace, northeastern Greece. It is the capital of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace and of the Rhodope regional unit. It is also the administrative center of the Rhodope-Evros super-prefecture. The city is home to the Democritus University of Thrace, founded in 1973...
    
    
  • Sapes Province
    Sapes Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Sapes
    Sapes
    Sapes is a town and a former municipality in the Rhodope peripheral unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Maroneia-Sapes, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The population is 9,542 ....
    
    
• Samos Prefecture
  Samos Prefecture
  Samos Prefecture was a prefecture in Greece, consisting of the islands of Samos, Ikaria and the smaller islands of Fournoi Korseon. In 2011 the prefecture was abolished and the territory is now covered by the peripheral units of Samos and Ikaria...
  
  
  • Ikaria Province
    Ikaria Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Agios Kyrikos
  • Samos Province
    Samos Province
    Samos Province was one of the two provinces of Samos Prefecture.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Samos
• Serres Prefecture
  Serres Prefecture
  Serres is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Region of Central Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Serres. The total population reaches just over 200,000.-Geography:...
  
  
  • Serres Province
    Serres Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Serres
    Serres, Greece
    Sérres is a city in Macedonia, Greece. It is situated in a fertile plain at an elevation of about 70 m, some 24 km northeast of the Strymon river and 69 km north-east of the Macedonian capital, Thessaloniki. The Rhodope Mountains rise to the north and east of the city...
    
    
  • Visaltia Province
    Visaltia Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Nigrita
    Nigrita
    Nigrita is a town and a former municipality in the Serres regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Visaltia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It is situated between the Strymonian plain of the Strymon river and the Vertiskos...
    
    
  • Phyllis Province
    Phyllis Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Nea Zichni
    Nea Zichni
    Nea Zichni is a municipality in the Serres regional unit, of Central Macedonia region, Greece. Population 15,073 . Nea Zichni is also the name of the administrative seat of the municipality. Population 2,421 .-History:...
    
    
  • Sintiki Province
    Sintiki Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Sidirokastro
    Sidirokastro
    Sidirokastro is a town and a former municipality in the Serres regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Sintiki, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It is built near the fertile valley of the river Strymonas, on the bank of the...
    
    
• Thesprotia Prefecture
  • Filiates Province
    Filiates Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Filiates
    Filiates
    Filiates is a town and a municipality in Thesprotia, Greece. It is located in the northernmost part of the prefecture, bordering western Ioannina Prefecture and southern Albania.-Municipality:...
    
    
  • Thyamis Province
    Thyamis Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Igoumenitsa
    Igoumenitsa
    Igoumenitsa , is a coastal city in northwestern Greece. It is the capital of the regional unit Thesprotia. Its original ancient name used to be Titani....
    
    
  • Margariti Province
    Margariti Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Margariti
    Margariti
    Margariti is a village and a former municipality in Thesprotia, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Igoumenitsa, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 3,032 .-History:...
    
    
  • Souli Province
    Souli Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Paramythia
    Paramythia
    Paramythia is a village and a former municipality in Thesprotia, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Souli, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. Population 7,859 .-Name:...
    
    
• Thessaloniki Prefecture
  Thessaloniki Prefecture
  Thessaloniki is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Region of Central Macedonia. Its capital is the city of Thessaloniki. It is the second most populous regional unit in Greece, behind Central Athens.-Geography:...
  
  
  • Thessaloniki Province
    Thessaloniki Province
    Thessaloniki Province was one of the two provinces of Thessaloniki Prefecture of Greece.-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...
    
    
  • Langadas Province - Langadas
• Trikala Prefecture
  Trikala Prefecture
  Trikala is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Thessaly. Its capital is the town of Trikala. The regional unit includes the town of Kalampaka and the Meteora monastery complex.-Geography:...
  
  
  • Trikala Province
    Trikala Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Trikala
    Trikala
    Trikala is a city in northwestern Thessaly, Greece. It is the capital of the Trikala peripheral unit, and is located NW of Athens, NW, of Karditsa, E of Ioannina and Metsovo, S of Grevena, SW of Thessaloniki, and W of Larissa...
    
    
  • Kalambaka Province
    Kalambaka Province
    -References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...
    
     - Kalambaka

There were no provinces in the following prefectures:

• Arta Prefecture
  Arta Prefecture
  Arta is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Epirus region. Its capital is the town of Arta.-Geography:The regional unit of Arta is located north of the Ambracian Gulf. The main mountain ranges are the Athamanika in the northeast, the Pindus in the east, and Valtou in the...
  
  
• Chios Prefecture
  Chios Prefecture
  Chios is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of North Aegean. The capital of the regional unit is the town of Chios. The regional unit consists of the islands of Chios, Psara, Oinousses and some smaller uninhabited islands , all in the Aegean Sea.-Administration:The...
  
  
• Corinthia Prefecture
• Drama Prefecture
  Drama Prefecture
  Drama is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace. Its capital is the town of Drama. The regional unit is the northernmost within the geographical region of Macedonia and the westernmost in the administrative region of East Macedonia and Thrace...
  
  
• Evrytania Prefecture
• Florina Prefecture
  Florina Prefecture
  Florina is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Florina.-Geography:Florina borders the regional units of Pella to the east, Kozani to the south and Kastoriá to the southwest...
  
  
• Grevena Prefecture
  Grevena Prefecture
  Grevena is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Grevena.-Geography:Grevena borders the regional units of Ioannina to the west, Kastoria to the northwest, Kozani to the north and east, Larissa to the southeast and Trikala to...
  
  
• Karditsa Prefecture
  Karditsa Prefecture
  Karditsa is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Thessaly. Its name is derived from its capital Karditsa, a small city of approximately 35,000 people.-Geography:...
  
  
• Kastoria Prefecture
  Kastoria Prefecture
  Kastoria is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Kastoria.-Geography:...
  
  
• Lefkada Prefecture
• Pieria Prefecture
• Preveza Prefecture
  Preveza Prefecture
  Preveza is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Epirus region. Its capital is the town of Preveza.-Geography:The regional unit of Preveza is located northwest of the Ambracian Gulf. The Ionian Sea lies to the west. The terrain is mostly hilly. The mountains of Xerovouni are in...
  
   (formerly)
• Xanthi Prefecture
  Xanthi Prefecture
  Xanthi is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace. The capital is Xanthi. Together with the regional units Rhodope and Evros, it forms the geographical region of Western Thrace.-Geography:...
  
  
• Zakinthos Prefecture