Souda
Sign in to saveSouda () is a town and former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Chania, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of . It is an important ferry and naval port at the head of Souda Bay.
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Souda
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Σούδα
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Cliffs and town of Souda.jpg
- Greek Dimos.caption_skyline
- The cliff of Souda bay
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Soudas.svg
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within the regional unit
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Crete
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Chania
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Chania
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 8438
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 6225
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 22.0
- Greek Dimos.licence
- ΧΝ
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- 6358
- Area
- 22.007
- Official website
- www.souda.gr
- Image
- SoudaPeeters1690.jpg
- Dialing code
- 28210
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- postal code
- 73200
- Commons category
- Souda
- located in/on physical feature
- Crete
- native label
- Σούδα
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Souda municipal unit
- Sinking of HMS ''York'' during WWII
- Gallery
- References
- External links
Souda () is a town and former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Chania, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of . It is an important ferry and naval port at the head of Souda Bay.
Souda is to the east of central Chania, although the area in between is mostly built-up. The town is a relatively new settlement, built on what used to be salt beds and marshland. The Turks knew the area as 'Tuzla', their name for salt-beds. In the 1870s, they began to build a new settlement here which grew as the port expanded. Souda Bay is one of the deepest natural harbours in the Mediterranean and is easy to defend.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Souda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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