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Keratsini (Greek, Modern: Κερατσίνι, Ancient/Katharevousa -on), older forms Keratsinio and Keratsinion is a suburb in the west southwestern part of Athens, Greece. Drapetsona Bay lies to the southwest. The city is linked by a road linking to Skaramangas along with GR-8A/E94 and Athinon Avenue and along with Lambrakis Streets and Petrou Ralli Avenue to the northeast and road to Perama to the northwest. There is an interchange which is only accessed by trucks which leads into the Piraeus harbor. It is also located S of Eleusis and GR-9, SW and W of Kifissou Avenue (GR-1/E75, about 14 km WSW of Athens, W of Poseidonos Avenue and Syngrou Avenue and about 4 km NW of downtown Piraeus. Jump to: navigation, search Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece, which are further subdivided into 51 prefectures (nomoi, singular - nomos, Greek: νομοί, νομÏÏ)): See also List of the prefectures of Greece by area List of the prefectures of Greece by population density List of the prefectures of...
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Jump to: navigation, search View of Piraeus A night ferry about to leave the port of Piraeus for the Dodecanese Piraeus, or Peiraeus (Modern Greek: ΠειÏÎ±Î¹Î¬Ï Peiraiás or Pireás, Ancient Greek / Katharevousa: ΠειÏαιεÏÏ Pireéfs) is a city in the prefecture of Attica, Greece, located south of Athens. ...
The area was made up of farmlands. Mixed farming was common. Urban development replaced much of the farmlands between the 1930s and the 1950s. Today, most of the municipality are urbanized or residential. The rocky landscape of Aigaleo with a few bushes lie to the north. The mountaintop is to the northeast and the valley is to the northwest. The industrial lies to the southwest with most of the buildings as the port of Piraeus. The area which was used for mining in the 1960s transformed the area into a park. Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ...
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Aegaleo (Greek Αιγάλεω Aig leo, Latin Aegaleus), also Aigaleo and Egaleo, is a mountain in Greece. ...
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Other Keratsini has schools, lyceums, gymnasia, banks, a police station, a post office, a tertiary division soccer team named Keratsini which is also called KERTS and squares (plateies) including one in the northwest. The current mayor is Dimitris Sarafoglou, who had also been mayor from 1979 to 1994. Plateia (ÏλαÏεία) is the Greek word for town square. ...
Historical population | Year | Municipal population | Change | Density | | 1981 | 74,179 | - | about 9,272.38/km² | | 1991 | 71,982 | -2,197/-2..96% | about 8,997.5/km² | 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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External links - Mapquest - Keratsini, street map not yet available
- http://keratsinion.gr.citytron.com
- in Greek:
- News article:
- http://news.pathfinder.gr/greece/news/166054.html
- http://www.keratsini.gr/ official site of the municipality
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