Pydna (;
Greek
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: Πύδνα, ''Pýdna'') is a small town and a former municipality in the northeastern part of
Pieria regional unit,
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...
. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality
Pydna-Kolindros
Pydna–Kolindros (, ''Pýdna-Kolindrós'') is a municipality in the Pieria (regional unit), Pieria regional unit, Central Macedonia, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Aiginio. The municipality has an area of 339.525 km2.
Municipa ...
, of which it is a municipal unit.
The municipal unit has an area of 105.059 km
2, the community 41.334 km
2.
Pydna is situated in fertile land close to the
Thermaic Gulf
The Thermaic Gulf (, ), also called the Gulf of Thessaloniki and the Macedonian Gulf, is a Gulf (geography), gulf constituting the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. The city of Thessaloniki is at its northeastern tip, and it is bounded by Pie ...
coast. The main village of the former municipality is
Kitros. It lies 6 km north of
Korinos, 8 km south of
Methoni and 13 km northeast of
Katerini
Katerini (, ''Kateríni'', ) is a city and municipality in northern Greece, the capital city of Regional Unit of Piera in Central Macedonia, Greece. It lies on the Pierian plain, between Mount Olympus and the Thermaikos Gulf, at an altitude ...
. The
A1 motorway and the
Piraeus–Platy railway (nearest station at Korinos) pass east of the village.
Population
See also
*
List of settlements in the Pieria regional unit
This is a list of settlements in the Pieria (regional unit), Pieria regional unit, Greece.
* Agiannis, Pieria, Agiannis
* Agia Varvara, Pieria, Agia Varvara
* Agios Dimitrios, Pieria, Agios Dimitrios, Katerini
* Agios Dimitrios, Dio-Olympos
* Agi ...
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Populated places in Pieria (regional unit)
Pydna-Kolindros
Catholic titular sees in Europe