{{Infobox Greek Dimos |name = Amari |name_local = Αμάρι |type = municipality |image_map = 2011 Dimos Amariou.png |periph = [[Crete]] |periphunit = [[Rethymno (regional unit)|Rethymno]] |pop_municipality = 5572 |area_municipality = 277.3 |pop_community = 189 |population_as_of = 2021 |elevation = |coordinates = {{coord|35|14|N|24|39|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |postal_code = |area_code = |licence = |website = |image_skyline = |caption_skyline = |mayor = |party = |since = |seat = Agia Foteini }} '''Amari''' ({{langx|el|Αμάρι}}) is a village and a municipality in [[Rethymno (regional unit)|Rethymno]] regional unit, [[Crete]], [[Greece]]. The seat of the municipality is the village [[Agia Foteini]].<ref name=Kallikratis>{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL8-SrPzKAEPjjtIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIukI0UzcPsWCK0LpLhpa7rhiWB4R5ntTnoWw7U8E1Amg.|title=ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text|language=el|publisher=[[Government Gazette (Greece)|Government Gazette]]}}</ref> The municipal unit has an area of {{convert|277.285|km2|abbr=on}}.<ref name=stat01>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-21 }}</ref> One of the major geographic features of Amari is the [[Amari Valley]], a landform of high elevation known for [[olive]] cultivation.<ref>[http://crete.wordpress.com/crete-articles/lotus-land-the-amari-valley-crete/ Crete: Amari Valley]</ref> It is thought that [[Monastiraki, Crete|Monastiraki]] was developed by [[Phaistos]] inhabitants founding a satellite center as they pushed out into the Amari Valley.<ref>[http://themodernantiquarian.com/site/10857/phaistos.html#fieldnotes C.Michael Hogan, ''Phaistos Fieldnotes'', The Modern Antiquarian (2007)]</ref>
==Municipality== The municipality Amari was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units:<ref name=Kallikratis/> *[[Kourites]] *[[Sivritos]]
==Province== The province of Amari ({{langx|el|Επαρχία Αμαρίου}}) was one of the [[provinces of Greece|provinces]] of the Rethymno Prefecture. It had the same territory as the present municipality.<ref name=census91>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00086.pdf |title=Detailed census results 1991 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183824/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00086.pdf |archivedate=2016-03-03 }} {{small|(39 MB)}} {{in lang|el|fr}}</ref> It was abolished in 2006.
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{{Kallikratis-Crete}} {{Amari div}} {{Prefectures and provinces of Greece}}
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