| Statistics | | A metropolis (in Greek metera = mother and polis = city/town) is a major city, which is an economical and cultural center for some country, and usually a hub for its international connections. The word is also used for a metropolitan area, a set of adjacent and interconnected cities that function...
Metropolitan Area: | The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. The Parthenon, the main monument on the site, was built in favour of goddess Athena, the patron of the city Athens ( Greek: Αθήνα Athína) is the capital of Greece, and...
Athens | | Location: | 37° 58′ 36″ N 23° 45′ 52″ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=37_58_36_N_23_45_52_E_region:GR) | Area: -Total -Water -Rank | 4 km²
| Population: ( 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. By strict interpretation of the Gregorian Calendar, 2001 is also the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millenium. Popular culture, however, often views the year 2000 as holding this distinction. 2001 is also the year...
2001) - Total - Density¹ - Rank | 57,230 around 14,307.5/km²
| Elevation: -lowest: -centre: | about 110 m 130 m(centre) around 1,100 near Hymettus, also Hymettos (Gr. Υμηττός, phonetic spelling Imitós) is a mountain range in Athens Area, East Central Greece. It is also colloquially known as Trellos or Trellovouno (crazy mountain), probably because of its propensity to change colors under shifting sunlight. The height...
Hymettus | | Here are list of postal codes in Greece. It is administered by ELTA (Ελληνικά Ταχυδρομεία, Hellenic Post). This postal system which are aligned by street like 105 33 are used in cities like...
Postal code: | 157 | | This is an alphabetical list by town of dialing codes in Greece. Before July 2001, none of the area codes ended with zero. Changes were made in November 2002, shortage of phone numbers result in removing the zero and exchange for a two. All codes now start with two but...
Area/distance code: | 11-30- Dialing code 210 is an area code used in the Athens-Piraeus and Eleusis areas. It is divided into 8 calling zones: 200s - northern Athens, and north central part of the dialing area 300s - central southwest of the area 400s - southwestern part in the Piraeus area 500s - western part especially...
210 (030-210) -740 thru 749 | | Municipal code: | 0117 | | The Greek car license plates are composed of three letters and four digits per plate (f.e:AAA-1000). The letters represent the district that issues the plates while the numbers begin from 1000 and reach 9999.The same plates but with digits beginning from 1 and finishing in 999...
Car designation: | Y (prev.) Z pres. | | 3-letter abbreviation: | ZGR | | Address of administration: | 7 Georgiou Zografou St. Zografou 157 | Zografou ( The Greek language (Greek Ελληνικά, IPA – Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of some 3,000 years. Ancient Greek in its various forms was the language both of classical Greek civilisation and of the origins of Christianity, and...
Greek: Ζωγράφου), rarely Zografos, is a suburb in the eastern part of The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. The Parthenon, the main monument on the site, was built in favour of goddess Athena, the patron of the city Athens ( Greek: Αθήνα Athína) is the capital of Greece, and...
Athens, Greece, formally called the Hellenic Republic ( Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία), is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It has land boundaries with Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav...
Greece. Zografou is located about 5 km from downtown The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. The Parthenon, the main monument on the site, was built in favour of goddess Athena, the patron of the city Athens ( Greek: Αθήνα Athína) is the capital of Greece, and...
Athens, about 2 km SW of Katechaki Avenue 4 km from the Hymettus Ring (number 65) which is part of the Attiki Odos (Greek: Αττική Οδος) is probably not the only private-owned superhighways in Greece. The entire stretch is tolled. The future high_speed rail is almost entirely in the median throught the main section. Its numbers are 6 for the main section...
Attiki Odos private superhighway network and 3 km E of Kifissias Avenue. The city is passed by Sven Olof Joachim Palme (January 30, 1927 - February 28, 1986) was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the Social Democrat Party from 1969 to 1986 and was Prime Minister of Sweden with a Privy Council Government from October 1969 to October 1976 and with a Cabinet Government starting...
Olaf Palme Avenue. Subdivisions The area was made up of farmlands and some forests dominated the area. The area was of mixed farming which included pastures, vegetables and groves. In the mid- (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
20th century, suburban housing developments from Athens came over eliminated farmlands leaving empty space in the northeast. The forests which are made up of pines are situated in the south, southeast and the east and a small park lies in the north. It is now made up of corporate buildings. The campus of the The National and Capodistrian University of Athens (Greek: Εθνικόν και Καποδιστριακόν Πανεπιστήμιον Αθηνώ...
University of Athens is situated in the south along with the private road linking Hymettus' communication towers. Zografou's hospital is in the northeast near Papagou. Much of the municipality are made up of grasslands and rocks which is part of the Hymettus range. Much of the area are hilly in the west Zografou has schools, lyceums, gymnasia, banks, post offices and squares ( Plateia (πλατεία) is the Greek word for town square. Most Greek and Cypriot cities have one or several town squares. Most notable squares/plateies (ordered by place) Monastiraki, Omonia, and Syntagma Squares (Constitution Square) all three in Athens Plateia Amerikis - suburban Athens Plateia Syntagmatos...
plateies). The eastern bypass of Athens is in the east and some mines is situated in the east.
Sites of Interests - Gounaropoulos Museum - A museum named after Gounaropoulos along with its street. It was founded in For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). Events January-February January 1 - First woman Episcopal priest ordained. January 6 - EMI sacks the Sex Pistols January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious legionnaires disease January 18 - Australia experiences its worst railway disaster...
1977, website: http://www.culture.gr/4/42/422/42202/42202n/e42202n1.html, in Greek (http://www.culture.gr/4/42/422/42202/42202n/g42202n1.html)
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1990 and is named after Marina Kotopouli
Historical population | Year | Municipal population | Change | Density | | 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events January-February January - Sarawak Chamber found January 1 - Greece enters the EEC January 1 - Palau becomes self-governing January 4 - Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 10 Townsville International Airport opens (aus) January 16 - Protestant gunmen shoot and...
1981 | 84,548 | - | around 9,394.22/km² | | 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events January January 2 - Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first black woman to lead a city of that size and importance. January 4 - The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously...
1991 | 80,492 | -4,056/-4.8% | around 8,943.5/km² | External links
| North: Papagou | | | West: The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. The Parthenon, the main monument on the site, was built in favour of goddess Athena, the patron of the city Athens ( Greek: Αθήνα Athína) is the capital of Greece, and...
Athens | Zografou | East: Paiania, also, rarely, Paeania or Peania (Greek: Παιανία), is a town in Greece east of the Hymettus and Athens and is a suburb of Athens. Its population is about 11,000. Until the late 2oth century, the area was known as Liopessi. Half ot...
Paeania | | South: Kaisariani or Kaissariani ( Greek: Καισαριάνη), also Kesariani or Kessariani, is a suburb in the eastern part of Athens, Greece. Kaisariani is located about 7 km from downtown Athens, about 4 km SW of Katechaki Avenue 4 km from the Hymettus Ring...
Kaisariani and Vyronastd> | | See also: - The following are list of municipalities in Attica, including Athens. Attica, and most of Greater Athens Non-municipal communes: 0115 - Ekali 0138 - Penteli, 31 km² 0311 - Varnava In the Peloponnese and the Islands Antikythira - 4002 Municipality of Hydra - 4018 Municipality of Kythera/Cythera - 4010 Methana - 4011 Municipality of Poros - 4014...
List of municipalities of Attica
| Municipalities of the This article is about Attica in Greece. For other Atticas, see Attica (disambiguation) Geography Attica is a peninsula jutting into the Aegean Sea. Mountains divide the peninsula into the plains of Pedia, Mesogeia, and Thriasia. To the north it is bordered by the Boeotian plain and to the west it...
Attica prefecture | | Municipalities of Athens | | Agia Varvara | For other uses, see Agia Paraskevi (disambiguation). Agia Paraskevi (Greek: Άγια Παρασκευή) is a suburb in Athens, Greece. It is bounded northeast by Athens, where ERT studios are located. Its distance from Athens is about 5 to 6 km...
Agia Paraskevi | Agioi Anargyroi | Agios Dimitrios | The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. The Parthenon, the main monument on the site, was built in favour of goddess Athena, the patron of the city Athens ( Greek: Αθήνα Athína) is the capital of Greece, and...
Athens | Aegaleo (Greek Αιγάλεω Aig leo, Latin Aegaleus), also Aigaleo and Egaleo, is a mountain in Greece. It is situated west of Athens, southeast of Eleusis, east of the island of Salamis and northwest of Piraeus. Most of the mountain is rocky. It is shorter...
Aigaleo | Alimos | Maroussi or Amaroussi, also Marousi and Amarousi, (Greek, Modern: Μαρούσι , Ancient/Katharevousa: -on) older forms: Amarousio, Amarousion, Amaroussi, Amaroussio, Amaroussion and Marousion is a suburban city NE of Athens, Greece. It is one of the largest municipalities of Athens. The Athens Olympic Sports Complex...
Amarousi | Argyroupoli | Chaidari | Chalandri, Halandri or sometimes Khalandri (Greek, Modern: Χαλάνδρι, Ancient/Katharevousa: _on), older forms, Chalandrion, Halandrion, Khalandrion is a northern suburb in Athens, Greece. Halandri or Chalandri is a suburb in Northern Athens, around 10 km from the centre. The place where it lies...
Chalandri | Holargos or Cholargos, rarely Kholargos (Greek: Χολαργός) Latin/Older form: Cholargus is a suburb of Athens, Greece, located northwest of the city center. The name dates back to the ancient times but the settlement was near modern Kamatero. It is accessed by Kifissias...
Cholargos | For a tiny city of the suburb of Athens that has this name (rarely Daphni) , see Daphne, which is the smallest municipality. Dafni or Daphni (Greek Δάφνι before the spelling change, Dafnion Δάφνιον or Daphnion) is a monastery 11 km...
Dafni | Ellinikon (Greek: Ελληνικό, meaning Greek) is a suburb of Athens, Greece. It was the home of the Ellinikon International Airport. The town hall is on the east side. One third of the municipality was covered by an airport. The municipal boundaries from north...
Ellinikon | There is also a Filothei in Filothei and in the prefectures of Ioannina and Phokida Filothei (Greek: Φιλοθέη) is an affluent suburb of Athens, Greece, consisting mainly of hillside villas with reasonably close proximity to the Olympic Stadium. Home to Chief 2004 Summer Olympics...
Filothei | Galatsi ( Greek, Modern: Γαλάτσι, Ancient/ Katharevousa: -on), older spellings Galatsio, Galatsion, is a suburb in the northern part of Athens, Greece. Galatsi is located about 5 km N of Athens from a SW to NE avenue linking Patissi. It is located about 1.5...
Galatsi | Glyfada (Greek: Γλυφάδα) is a city in Greece south of Ellinikon and Athens with three main roads. It is a beach town, and town hall is in the middle of Glyfada. Northwest is the forested wooded golf course of Athens, the Glyfada Golf Club...
Glyfada | Heraklio | Ilio | Ilioupoli | Kaisariani or Kaissariani ( Greek: Καισαριάνη), also Kesariani or Kessariani, is a suburb in the eastern part of Athens, Greece. Kaisariani is located about 7 km from downtown Athens, about 4 km SW of Katechaki Avenue 4 km from the Hymettus Ring...
Kaisariani | Kallithea (Greek: Καλλιθέα) or Kalithea is a city 8 km SW of Athens. It is also a suburban city. Its main street is Kalliróe Street. It is home of Athens nearest race track. The hippodrome (name?) is short. This was the site...
Kallithea | Kamatero | Kifissia (Greek, Modern: Κηφισσιά, Ancient/Katharevousa: Κηφισσία, Ancient form/Latin: Cephissia) or Kifisia is a northern suburb of Athens, Greece. It has a city surface train station (ISAP or the Green Line) which is presently a...
Kifissia | Lykovryssi | Melissia | Metamorfosi | Nea Chalkidona | Nea Erythraia | There is also Nea Ionia in the prefecture of Magnesia Nea Ionia (meaning New Ionia) is a northern suburb of Athens, Greece. It has a surface train station (ISAP). Categories: Stub | Cities and towns in Greece ...
Nea Ionia | Nea Filadelfeia | Nea Smyrni | Neo Psychiko | Palaio Faliro or Paleo Faliro ( Greek, Modern: Παλαιό Φάληρο, Ancient/ Katharevousa: -on meaning Old Faliro), older forms Palaio Faliron or Paleo Faliron is a suburb in the southern part of Athens, Greece. The area is famous for its beaches and...
Palaio Faliro | Papagou | Pefki | Peristeri is a Modern Greek word for pigeon There are communities that have the name Peristeri (Greek: Περιστέρι), older forms Peristerio, Peristerion Peristeri, older forms Peristerio and Peristerion is a suburban community in Athens area (Attica), Greece. It is located about 5...
Peristeri | Petroupoli | There are other Psychikos in Greece, one in Larissa and one in Serres. Psychikoor Psyhiko or Psihiko (Greek:Ψυχικό ), older forms Psychikon, Psyhikon, Psykhikon, Psihikon, Psikhikon is a suburb of Athens, Greece. Psych- comes from Psyche meaning soul. The location is south of the Olympic...
Psychiko | There is also a Tavros in Cyprus near Famagusta, see Tavros, Cyprus Tavros ( Greek: Ταύρος), is a suburb in the southwestern part of Athens, Greece. Athens is not far to the east and is 4 km from the town centre and 3 km from the...
Tavros | Vrilissia (Greek: Βριλήσσια) is a northern suburb of Athens, Greece. There is a forestes area covered with piney trees which has been battling against a power station and the mayor was attended in 2003. Vrilissia has schools, lyceums, gymnasia, banks, post offices...
Vrilissia | Vyrona | Ymittos or Imittos, also Imittos, rarely Hymmitos (Greek: Υμηττός), is a suburb of Athens, Greece. It is also a mountain which is located just east of downtown, for more of this mountain, see Hymettus. It si run by Ymittos Street which is connected with...
Ymittos | Zografou | | (Non-municipal) Communities of Athens prefectural department | | Ekali | Nea Penteli | Pentéli or Pendeli, (Greek: Πεντέλη, ancient forms: Pentele or Pentelicus, Mendeli in medieval times) is a tall mountain and mountain range situated northeast of Athens and southwest of Marathon. The elevation is 1,109 m. The mountain is mainly covered with forests (about...
Penteli | | Municipalities of East Attica | | Archarnae was the largest deme of ancient Attica; it was located in the northwest part of the Attic plain, around Menidi, and about 10 km due north of Athens. The Acharnians chiefly grew grain, grapes, and olives, although Aristophanes in his comedy The Acharnians caricatures them as charcoal-burners. Pindar...
Acharnai | Agios Konstantinos | Agios Stefanos | Artemida | Avlona | Gerakas | Glyka Nera | Kalyvia Thorikou | Keratea | Kropia | Laurium or Laurion (Λαύριον, Thoricum before early 1000s BC, Ergastiri throughout the medieval times and the mid to late 1000s, Ergastiri is Greek for Workplace) is a town in southeastern part of Attica, Greece and is one of the southernmost and the seat of...
Lavreotiki | Marathon (Greek, Modern: Μαραθώνα Marathona or Marathonas, Ancient/Katharavousa: Μαραθών) is a town in Greece, the site of the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, in which the Athenian army defeated the Persians. A legendary run of...
Marathon | Markopoulo Mesogeias | Nea Makri | Paiania, also, rarely, Paeania or Peania (Greek: Παιανία), is a town in Greece east of the Hymettus and Athens and is a suburb of Athens. Its population is about 11,000. Until the late 2oth century, the area was known as Liopessi. Half ot...
Paiania | Pallini | Rafina | Spata | For the Polynesian mythological figure, see Varima-te-Takere which is alsn known as Vari anf for a town on the island of Syros, see Vari (Syros), Greece. Vari (or Várê, Greek: Βάρη)is a suburban community in the southwestern part of the Mesogeia plain and...
Vari | There is a village named Vouliagmeni in the prefecture of Ilia, see Vouliagmeni (Ilia), Greece Vouliagmeni (Greek: Βουλιαγμένη) is a municipality 20 km south of Athens. Its population is about 4,000. It sits in the southwestern part of the...
Vouliagmeni | Voula | | (Non-municipal)Communities of East Attica | | Afidnes | Agios Konstantinos | Anavyssos, also Anavissos, Anavysos, Anavisos (Greek: Ανάβυσσος, until the 1990s, Anavissos) is a suburban Athens town in southern Attica, and NW of Sunion. It is linked by GR-91 and runs through Anavyssos, and no railroad. The neighboring communities is Kalyvia in...
Anavyssos | Anoixi | Anthousa | Dionysos | Drosia | Grammatiko | Kalamos | Kapandriti | Kouvaras | Kryoneri | Malakasa | Markopoulo Oropou | Nea Palatia | Oropos | Palaia Fokaia | Pikermi | Polydendri | Rodopoli | Saronida | Skala Oropou | Stamata | Sykamino | Thrakomakedones | Varnava | | Municipalities of the Piraeus prefectural department | | Agios Ioannis Rentis | Aigina | Ampelakia Salaminas | Hydra is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea between the Saronic Gulf and the Argolic Gulf. It is separated from the Peloponnese by a narrow strait called on some maps the Hydra Gulf. It is also a municipality and was one of the few provinces...
Hydra | There is another Korydallos near Kalambaka, see Korydallos (Trikala), Greece Korydalos (Greek: Κορυδαλλός, Latin: Corydallos or -os) is a municipality which belongs to Piraeus, Greece in the western suburbs of Athens. It is the home of the Korydallos prisons. It sits...
Korydallos | Kythira, also seen as Kythera, Cythera or Tsirigo, is an island, one of the Ionian Islands. It lies opposite the eastern tip of the Peloponnesos peninsula in Greece. It has an area of 284 square kilometers. The rugged terrain is a result of prevailing winds from the surrounding seas which...
Kythira | Drapetsona | ] | Nikaia | There are communities that have the name Perama: Perama (Greek: Πέραμα) is a port city and a suburb of Athens that lies on the southwest edge of the Aegaleo mountains. It creates the western terminus of the Port of Piraeus (Athens port). Houses lie within...
Perama | Piraeus, or Peiraeus (Modern Greek: Πειραιά(ς) Pireá(s), Ancient Greek / Katharevousa: Πειραιεύς Pireéfs) is a city in the prefecture of Attica, Greece, located south of Athens. It was the port of the ancient city...
Piraeus | This Poros is an island pair. Poros can also refer to Porus, in Greek mythology. Poros is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, at a distance about 48 km (32 miles) south from Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a 200-metre...
Poros | The Greek island of Salamis (Greek, Modern: Σαλάμινα Salamina, Ancient/Katharevousa: ) is the largest island in the Saronic Gulf, about 1 nautical mile off-coast from Piraeus. Paloukia Port is the main port, in size second only to Piraeus in Greece. The name...
Salamina | Spetses (Greek, Modern: Σπέτσες, Ancient/Katharevousa: -ai), older form Spetsai is an island in Greece. Until 1948, it was part of the old prefecture of Argolidocorinthia that is now split into Argolis and Corinthia. In ancient times, it was known as Pityoussa and later...
Spetses | Troizina | | (Non-municipal) Communities of the Piraeus prefectural department | | Angistri | Antikythera (Αντικύθηρα) is a island with a land mass of 20 square kilometers, 38 kilometers south-east of Kythira. It is notable for being the location of the discovery of the Antikythera mechanism. External link http://www.antikythera.8m.com/newant...
Antikythira | | Provinces of the Piraeus prefectural department | | Aigina | Kythira, also seen as Kythera, Cythera or Tsirigo, is an island, one of the Ionian Islands. It lies opposite the eastern tip of the Peloponnesos peninsula in Greece. It has an area of 284 square kilometers. The rugged terrain is a result of prevailing winds from the surrounding seas which...
Kythira | | Municipalities of West Attica | | Ano Liosia | For an Aspropyrgos in Eurytania, see Aspropyrgos, Eurytania Aspropyrgos (Greek: Ασπρόπυργος for white tower). is a suburban community located 20 NW of Athens in the heart of the Thriasian plain, and Thria was known in ancient times. Its location is...
Aspropyrgos | Eleusis (Greek, Modern: Ελεύσινα, Ancient/Katharevousa: -is) was a small town about 30 km NW of Athens. Most importantly, it was the site of the Eleusinian Mysteries, one of the major cults of ancient Greece. See also Metanira. Today, the city, which is...
Eleusis | Erythres | Fyli | Mandra | Megara (Greek: Μέγαρα) is an ancient city in Attica, Greece, on the Saronic Gulf opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Megara was one of the four districts of Attica, embodied in the four mythic...
Megara | Neos Peramos | Vilia | Zefyri | | (Non-Municipal) Communities of West Attica | | Magoula | Oinoi | | Prefectural sects of Attica | | Athens | East Attica | Piraeus | West Attica | |