Attica
Athens Prefecture
Vyronas

Vyronas

Vyronas is a suburban town and a municipality in the southeastern part of the , . The town is named after George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, the famous poet and writer, who is a national hero of Greece.
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  • Type: Suburb with 61,300 residents
  • Description: suburb of Athens in Attica Region, Greece
  • Also known as: “Víron” and “Viron,Vyron”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parthenon and Lyceum.

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The is a former temple on the , Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of classical Greek art, and the is considered an enduring symbol of ancient Greece, Western civilization, and democracy.

Archaeological site
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The (, Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, romanized: Lykeion /lý.keː.on/ was a temple in dedicated to Apollo Lyceus. It was best known for the Peripatetic school of philosophy founded there by Aristotle in 334 BC.

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The , also known as the Olympieion or Columns of the Olympian Zeus, is a colossal temple in the centre of , now in ruins. It was dedicated to "Olympian" Zeus, a name originating from his position as head of the Olympian gods.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Palaio Faliro.

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is the capital city of with a metropolitan population of 3.15 million inhabitants. It was a major cultural, political and religious centre of Classical Greece, a place that deeply influenced the course of Western civilization.

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is a municipality in on the Saronic Gulf coast. It is part of the South Suburbs of .

Suburb
is a suburban municipality and a town in Central Athens regional unit and located in the central-southern part of the agglomeration. Its name is the modern form of the ancient name of Heliopolis in .

Vyronas

Latitude
37.9565° or 37° 57′ 23″ north
Longitude
23.7555° or 23° 45′ 20″ east
Population
61,300
Elevation
143 metres (469 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GR VYR
Open location code
8G95XQ44+H5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 612270455
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
251948
Wiki­data ID
Q683555
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Vyronas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فيروناس”
  • Belarusian: “Віранас”
  • Bulgarian: “Виронас”
  • Catalan: “Víronas”
  • Cebuano: “Výronas”
  • Chinese: “维罗纳斯”
  • Czech: “Vyronas”
  • Dutch: “Vyronas”
  • Esperanto: “Vironas”
  • Esperanto: “Víronas”
  • Esperanto: “Βύρωνας”
  • Finnish: “Výronas”
  • French: “Výronas”
  • German: “Vyronas”
  • Greek: “Βύρων”
  • Greek: “Βύρωνας Αττικής”
  • Greek: “Βύρωνας”
  • Hungarian: “Víronasz”
  • Italian: “Vironas”
  • Italian: “Vironos”
  • Japanese: “ヴィロナス”
  • Lithuanian: “Vironas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Výronas”
  • Persian: “ویروناس”
  • Polish: “Wironas”
  • Portuguese: “Vyronas”
  • Romanian: “Vyron”
  • Russian: “Вирон”
  • Serbian: “Виронас”
  • Slovak: “Vyronas”
  • Swedish: “Výronas”
  • Turkish: “Vironas”
  • Ukrainian: “Віронас”
  • Urdu: “ویروناس”
  • Vietnamese: “Vyron”

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