Pydna
Pydna is a small town and a former municipality in the northeastern part of Pieria regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pydna-Kolindros, of which it is a municipal unit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: modern village in Pieria, Greece
- Also known as: “Archaia Pydna”, “Pídhna”, and “Pudna”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ancient Pydna.
Ancient Pydna
Archaeological site
Pydna was an ancient Greek city in what is now the regional unit of Pieria, Central Macedonia, Greece. It is an important place in the history of Pieria and a major archaeological site located directly at the Aegean Sea, 16 km northeast of Katerini, 28 km north-east of Dion and 2.5 km from the village of Makrygialos. Ancient Pydna is situated 2 km north of Pydna.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alykí and Kitros.
Alykí
Hamlet
Photo: Lemur12, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alyki is a village of the Pydna-Kolindros municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Pydna, of which it was a municipal district.
Kitros
Village
Photo: Dinauro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kitros is a village of the Pydna-Kolindros municipality. Under Ottoman rule, it was known as Çitroz. Before the 2011 local government reform, it was part of the municipality of Pydna, of which it was the seat. Kitros is situated 3½ km west of Pydna.
Pydna
- Categories: village, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Pydna-Kolindros, Pieria, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Pydna” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بدنا”
- Armenian: “Պիդնա”
- Basque: “Pidna”
- Belarusian: “Підна”
- Bulgarian: “Археа Пидна”
- Bulgarian: “Пидна”
- Catalan: “Pidna”
- Cebuano: “Pýdna”
- Chinese: “彼得那”
- Danish: “Pydna”
- Dutch: “Pydna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پيدنا”
- Finnish: “Pydna”
- Finnish: “Pýdna”
- French: “Pydna”
- French: “Pýdna”
- German: “Archea Pydna”
- German: “Pydna”
- Greek: “Αρχαία Πύδνα”
- Greek: “Πύδνα”
- Indonesian: “Pydna”
- Italian: “Pidna”
- Japanese: “ピドナ”
- Japanese: “ピュドナ”
- Latin: “Pydna”
- Macedonian: “Стара Пидна”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pydna”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pýdna”
- Norwegian: “Pydna”
- Russian: “Архея-Пидна”
- Serbian: “Археа Пидна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pidna”
- Spanish: “Pidna”
- Swedish: “Pydna”
- Turkish: “Pydna”
- Ukrainian: “Підна”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pydna”. Photo: Lemur12, CC BY-SA 4.0.