Souda or Suda 's a town and municipality of the Greek island of Crete, in the prefecture of Chania. It's an important ferry and naval port at the head of Souda Bay. Souda's 6.5 km to the east of central Chania, although the area in between's mostly built-up. The town's 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.… (More on Souda)