Kallikratis Plan Administrative Divisions
The Kallikratis plan (Law 3852/2010), which entered into effect on 1 January 2011, transformed the modern regions of Greece into fully separate entities by the 2010 with elected regional governors and regional councils.
The previous government-appointed general secretary disappeared at the regional level, and the regional organs of the central government were in turn replaced by seven decentralized administrations, which group from one to three regions under a government-appointed general secretary.
- Attica, with the capital of Athens
- Macedonia - Thrace, with the capital of Thessaloniki
- Epirus - Western Macedonia, with the capital of Ioannina
- Thessaly - Central Greece, with the capital of Larissa
- Peloponnese, West Greece and Ionian Islands, with the capital of Patras
- Aegean Islands, with the capital of Piraeus
- Crete, with the capital of Iraklion
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