Iasmos Municipality
Sign in to saveIasmos () is a municipality of the Rhodope regional unit, located in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Its administrative seat is the municipal unit (town) of Iasmos. , it had a population of 12,247 people, with significant Sarakatsani and Muslim minority communities.
Key facts
- Greek place.name
- Iasmos
- Greek place.name_local
- Ίασμος
- Greek place.type
- municipality
- Greek place.image_map
- 2011 Dimos Iasmou.svg
- Greek place.periph
- East Macedonia and Thrace
- Greek place.periphunit
- Rhodope
- Greek place.pop_municipality
- 12247
- Greek place.area_municipality
- 485.3
- Greek place.pop_municunit
- 4974
- Greek place.area_municunit
- 221.8
- Greek place.pop_community
- 3892
- Greek place.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek place.elevation
- 43
- Greek place.licence
- ΚΟ
- Greek place.image_skyline
- 20101027 Iasmos Top View Panoramic Rhodope Prefecture Thrace Greece.jpg
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Iasmos () is a municipality of the Rhodope regional unit, located in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Its administrative seat is the municipal unit (town) of Iasmos. , it had a population of 12,247 people, with significant Sarakatsani and Muslim minority communities.
== Geography == The municipality has an area of , while the municipal unit covers . The area of the municipality before the 2011 local government reforms was 200,403 stremmas (), with roughly three-fifths classified as mountainous or semi-mountainous and the remaining two-fifths as lowland plains. The municipality can thus be split into two geographical zones: a lowland area of fertile plains in the south, which extends along the southern foothills of the Rhodope Mountains, and a forested mountainous region in the southern and southwestern parts of the municipality. Feral horses and goats can be found in the mountainous areas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iasmos Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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