Nea Roda is a village 115 km (71 mi) southeast of Thessaloniki, on the narrowest point of the Athos peninsula in the municipality of Stagira-Akanthos, Chalkidiki, Greece.

He did this in order to avoid rounding the edge of Athos peninsula, where Mardonius saw his fleet being destroyed ten years earlier due to extreme weather conditions.

[4] It is considered, by many, to be the largest settlement of refugees coming to North Halkidiki after the Greek Genocide.

The Greek name of the settlement was Roda (registered in the book of the metropolis) and the Turkish (presented in official Ottoman documents) was Rutya.

[7] Today, Nea Roda is a modern village with 1,192 residents (2011 census), making it the second biggest town of the municipal unit of Stagira-Akanthos after Ierissos.