Magnesia Prefecture
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Key facts
- Country
- Greece
- Periphery
- Thessaly
- Capital
- Volos
- Total
- 2,367 km (914 sq mi)
- Rank
- List of the prefectures of Greece by area
- Density
- 81.72/km (211.7/sq mi)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- prefecture of Greece
- Named after
- Magnes son of Aeolus
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Thessaly
- Capital
- Volos
- Area
- 2636
- Image
- Pilio argalasti panorama27x12.jpg
- Licence plate code
- BO
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- topic's main category
- Category:Magnesia (regional unit)
- inception
- 1899-01-01
- postal code
- 37x xx - 38x xx
- different from
- Magnesia
- replaced by
- Sporades Regional Unit
- native label
- Μαγνησία
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Encyclopedic overview
Magnesia Prefecture (Greek: Νομός Μαγνησίας) 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 as well as the chemical elements magnesium, derived from the mineral magnesia alba, and manganese, derived from the mineral magnesia nigra via Latin.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Magnesia Prefecture” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.