Sitia

Sitia or Siteia is a port town and a municipality in , , Greece. The town has 11,166 inhabitants and the municipality has 20,438. It lies east of and northeast of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Sitia Airport and Kazarma fortress.

Aerodrome
Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small community airport in the region Mponta of Sitia Municipality, on the eastern part of in . The facility is serving the city of Sitia. The airport is located 1 km north/northwest of the city center.

Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kazarma is the Venetian-era fortress of the city of Sitia in , . This fortress was built in the 13th Century during Venetian rule on Crete. The Venetians abandoned the town in 1651 and destroyed parts of the fortress to prevent its use by the Turks.

Museum
The is a in Sitia of , in . Its collection consists of Minoan-era finds from Sitia, , Petra and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Piskokefalo.

Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village.

Sitia

Latitude
35.2066° or 35° 12′ 24″ north
Longitude
26.105° or 26° 6′ 18″ east
Population
9,350
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
JSH
United Nations Location Code
GR JSH
Open location code
8G786443+MX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1876796780
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
253759
Wiki­data ID
Q985549
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Sitia” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Sitia”
  • Arabic: “سيتيا”
  • Aragonese: “Sitia”
  • Armenian: “Սիտիա”
  • Asturian: “Sitia”
  • Bulgarian: “Сития”
  • Catalan: “Sitia”
  • Cebuano: “Siteía”
  • Chinese: “錫蒂亞”
  • Chinese: “锡蒂亚”
  • Czech: “Sitia”
  • Danish: “Sitia”
  • Dutch: “Sitia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيتيا”
  • Estonian: “Sitía”
  • Finnish: “Siteia”
  • Finnish: “Siteía”
  • Finnish: “Sitia”
  • Finnish: “Sitía”
  • French: “Sitia”
  • French: “Sitía”
  • German: “Sitia”
  • German: “Sitía”
  • Greek: “Σητεία”
  • Hungarian: “Széteia”
  • Indonesian: “Sitia”
  • Italian: “Sitia municipio”
  • Italian: “Sitia”
  • Japanese: “シティア”
  • Japanese: “ネアポリ (ラシティ県)”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sitía”
  • Persian: “سیتیا”
  • Polish: “Sitia”
  • Polish: “Sitía”
  • Portuguese: “Siteía”
  • Portuguese: “Sitia”
  • Portuguese: “Sitía”
  • Russian: “Сития”
  • Serbian: “Ситија”
  • Slovak: “Sitia”
  • Slovak: “Sitía”
  • Slovenian: “Sitia”
  • Spanish: “Siteia”
  • Spanish: “Siteía”
  • Spanish: “Sitia”
  • Spanish: “Sitía”
  • Spanish: “Σητεία”
  • Swedish: “Sitia”
  • Turkish: “Estiye”
  • Turkish: “İstiye”
  • Turkish: “Sitya”
  • Ukrainian: “Сітія”
  • Urdu: “سیتیا”
  • Vietnamese: “Sitia”

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