Magnesia Prefecture

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Magnesia Prefecture Νομός Μαγνησίας
Former prefecture
Location of Magnesia Prefecture in Greece
Country	Greece
Periphery	Thessaly
Established	1899
Disestablished	2011
Capital	Volos
Area
• Total	2,367 km² (914 sq mi)
• Rank	List of the prefectures of Greece by area
Population (2001)
• Total	193,439
• Rank	List of the prefectures of Greece by population
• Density	82/km² (210/sq mi)

Magnesia Prefecture (Template:Lang-el) 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 regional units of Magnesia and the Sporades.

The toponym is ancient to the region. Ore that attracts iron is common in Magnesia, which is the origin of words such as magnet and magnetism^[1] as well as the chemical element magnesium.

Sources

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Magnesia.

^ Online Etymology Dictionary, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=magnet

Prefectures of Greece

By name

By year established

1800s

1833: Achaea and Elis; Aetolia-Acarnania; Arcadia; Argolis and Corinthia; Attica and Boeotia; Cyclades; Euboea; Laconia; Messenia; Phocis and Locris
1845: Phthiotis and Phocis
1864: Corfu; Kefallinia; Lefkada; Zakynthos
1882: Arta; Larissa; Trikala
1899: Achaea; Argolis; Attica^c; Boeotia; Corinthia; Elis; Evrytania; Karditsa; Lacedaemon; Lakoniki; Magnesia; Phocis; Phthiotis; Trifylia

1900s

1912: Chania; Heraklion; Lasithi; Rethymno; Sfakia
1914: Thessaloniki
1915: Argyrokastron^b; Chalkidiki; Chios; Drama^d; Florina; Ioannina; Kavala^d; Korytsa^b; Kozani; Lesbos; Preveza; Samos; Serres
1920: Adrianople^a; Evros^d; Kallipolis^a; Rhaedestos^a; Rhodope^d; Saranta Ekklisies^a
1930–1944: Pella; Kilkis; Thesprotia; Kastoria; Xanthi^d
1947: Dodecanese; Imathia; Pieria
1964: Grevena; Piraeus

^a In Eastern Thrace or ^b Northern Epirus, outside present-day Greece.
^c From 1971, Attica consisted of four prefecture-level units: Athens, East Attica, Piraeus and West Attica. From 1994, Athens and Piraeus were grouped into a single super-prefecture.
^d From 1994, Drama / Kavala / Xanthi and Evros / Rhodope prefectures were grouped into super-prefectures.

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