Nikiforos Fokas is a former municipality in the Rethymno peripheral unit, Crete

Crete

Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...

, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Rethymno

Rethymno

Rethymno is a city of approximately 40,000 people in Greece, the capital of Rethymno peripheral unit in the island of Crete. It was built in antiquity , even though was never a competitive Minoan centre...

, of which it is a municipal unit. It was named after the 10th century Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, who retook the island from the Muslims. Population 6,599 (2001). The seat of the municipality was in Gonia

Gonia

Gonia is a picturesque village in the Rethymno Prefecture in Crete, Greece, lying at an altitude of ca 222 m amsl, just SW, 10km of the town of Rethymno, on the old national road to Chania. Gonia is the seat of the municipality Nikeforos Fokas. [Build recently a new school for all the villages...

. The ancient city of Eleutherna

Eleutherna

Eleutherna , also called Apollonia, was an ancient city-state in Crete, Greece, which lies 25 km southeast of Rethymno in Rethymno Prefecture...

is located within the municipal unit.