Egaleo

Egaleo municipality
Δήμος Αιγάλεω

Basic data

State :

Greece

Region :

Attica

Regional District :

Athens West

Geographic coordinates :

37 ° 59 ′ N , 23 ° 40 ′ E Coordinates: 37 ° 59 ′ N , 23 ° 40 ′ E

Area :

6.45 km²

Residents :

69,946 (2011)

Population density :

10,844.3 inhabitants / km²

Post Code:

122xx

Prefix:

(+30) 210

Community logo:

Seat:

Egaleo

LAU-1 code no .:

4704

Districts :

no

Local self-government :

no

Website:

www.egaleo.gr

Location in the Attica region

Egaleo ( Greek Αιγάλεω ( n. Sg. ), Also Aegaleo ) is an industrial municipality in the west of Athens , a suburb of Athens.

Location and history

Egaleo is located west of the Kifisos River and in the southeast of Mount Egaleo , immediately adjacent to downtown Athens and only approx. 6 km from the Acropolis .

The city extends on both sides of the ancient " Holy Road " ( Greek Ιερά Οδός ) from Athens to Eleusis . At the place Gephyra (Gephyreis), where the "Holy Road" crosses the Kifisos on a bridge, the travelers are said to have been vulgarly insulted and ridiculed.

Egaleo was named after the mountain of the same name, from which the Persian king Xerxes I pursued the destruction of his fleet at the Battle of Salamis .

The area was first settled by refugees in 1922 after the catastrophe in Asia Minor . The surrounding settlements merged in 1934 under the name "Nees Kidonies" until 1941 the municipality of Egaleo was created.

Economy and Transport

Egaleo is the terminus of line 3 (“Blue Line”) of the metro .

Important roads that serve local and long-distance traffic intersect in the city:

The highway 8 ( GR-A8 ), the Athens with the seaport Patras connects;
The national road 1 runs over the Kifisos boulevard ( Λεοφόρος Κηφισόυ ), which merges into the GR-A1 motorway north of Egaleo and crosses the Attiki Odos ( Αττική Οδός 'Attische Strasse' motorway 6, GR-A6 ).
The motorway 65 ( GR-A65 ), also called "Egaleo-Ring", runs on the other (western) side of the mountain Egaleo, after which it is named. It forms a crossbar to the Attiki Odos.

Dealing with traffic jams has been one of the city's biggest problems over the past few decades.

About a quarter of the municipality is an industrial area, mainly in the east in the area of the Kifisos River.

Estavromenos Church Egaleo

Most of the residents are workers.

Districts

Kato Egaleo
Neo Egaleo

development

year	Residents	change	density
1981	81.906	-	12,698.60 / km²
1991	78,563	−3,343 / −4.08%	12,180.31 / km²
2001	74,046	−4,517 / −5.75%	11,480.00 / km²

Egaleo AO stadium

Culture and sport

Egaleo has a municipal theater "Alexis Minotis", a cultural center "Giannis Ritsos", a city library and a park with recreational and sports areas.

The local newspaper bears the city's name, Egaleo.

The local sports club is the Egaleo AO ; He plays in the second Greek soccer league and after several seasons in the A1 Ethniki in the second basketball league A2 Ethniki .

Personalities

Rita Abatzi (* 1914 in Smyrna (today Izmir , Turkey ), † June 17, 1969), Greek musician
Keti Garbi (* 1963), Greek singer
George Zampetas, Greek musician
Sophia Strati, Greek singer