East Selino (Greek: Ανατολικό Σέλινο) is a former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kantanos-Selino, of which it is a municipal unit. It is situated on the south-west coast of the island of Crete. It was part of the former Selino Province which covered the mountain and coastal region west of Sfakia. The seat of the municipality was Kampanos.
The municipal unit is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):
- Epanochori (Epanochori, Agia Eirini, Prines, Seliniotikos Gyros, Tsiskiana)
- Kampanos (Kampanos, Maralia)
- Rodovani (Rodovani, Agriles, Kamaria, Livada, Maza)
- Skafi (Skafi, Argastiri, Pera Skafi)
- Sougia (Sougia, Koustogerako, Livadas, Moni)
- Temenia (Temenia, Pappadiana, Stratoi)
Within Anatoliko Selino lies the Agia Eirini Gorge, the ruins of the ancient cities of Elyros, Lissos, Yrtakina and Syia and many Byzantine churches. The area's main product is olive oil. Sougia is a growing beach resort with a few small hotels and tavernas.
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“The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not send men to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)