:for the village in Nepal see Suda, Nepal The Suda or Souda (}})'s a massive 10th century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly wrongfully attributed to an author called Suidas. It's an encyclopedic lexicon with 30,000 entries, many drawing from ancient sources that've since been lost, and often derived from medieval Christian compilers. The derivation's probably from the Byzantine Greek word souda, meaning "fortress" or "stronghold," with the alter… (More on Suda)