Rigas Feraios (municipality)
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Rigas Feraios is a municipality in the Magnesia peripheral unit, Thessaly
Thessaly
Thessaly is a traditional geographical region and an administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey....

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

. The seat of the municipality is the town Velestino. The municipality was named after the Greek writer and revolutionary Rigas Feraios
Rigas Feraios
Rigas Feraios or Rigas Velestinlis was a Greek writer and revolutionary of Aromanian origin, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment, remembered as a Greek national hero, a victim of Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a forerunner of the Greek War of Independence.-Early...

, whose hometown Velestino is.

Municipality

The municipality Rigas Feraios was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units:
  • Feres
    Feres, Magnesia
    Feres is a former municipality in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Rigas Feraios, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 6,116 . The seat of the municipality was in Velestino .- Notable people :* Rigas Feraios , Greek...

  • Karla
    Karla, Greece
    Karla is a former municipality in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Rigas Feraios, of which it is a municipal unit. It is an agricultural area producing cereals, cotton and vegetables . The capital of the municipality was...

  • Keramidi
    Keramidi
    Keramidi is a village and a former community in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Rigas Feraios, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 782 . Keramidi combines mountain and sea. It is situated at 300 meters above sea level and...

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