Asterousia
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Asterousia is a former municipality in the Heraklion peripheral unit, Crete
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, Greece
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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Archanes-Asterousia, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 6,303 (2001). The seat of the municipality was in Pyrgos. Other villages include Charakas.
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