Cephissus
Cephissus is a river in the vicinity of Athens, Greece. Together with the neighbouring river Ilisos, it drains a catchment area of 420 km2. The Bibliotheca states that the legendary Erechtheus' wife Praxithea was the daughter of Phrasimus by Diogenia daughter of Cephissus.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river through Athenian plain, Greece
- Also known as: “Kifisos”, “Kifisos Potamos”, and “Kifissós Potamós”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hellenic Air Force Museum and Tatoi Airport.
Hellenic Air Force Museum
Museum
Photo: Dimitris Kamaras, CC BY 2.0.
The Hellenic Air Force Museum was founded in 1986 and since 1992 has been located on Dekelia Air Base in Acharnes north of Athens. In opposition to the War Museum of Athens it displays air force history and is active in restoring and presenting old aircraft.
Tatoi Airport
Aerodrome
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Tatoi Airport is an airport located north of Athens, in Decelea. It started operating in 1918 and it now has a single runway with a length of 1764m. The airport is used by the Hellenic Air Force and is the base of the following aeroclubs: It has also been used by many other aeroclubs of Attica. Tatoi Airport is situated 3 km north of Cephissus.
Acharnes railway station
Railway station
Acharnes railway station is a station on the Piraeus–Platy railway line in the northern part of the Athens urban area, in the municipality of Acharnes, Greece. Acharnes railway station is situated 2½ km west of Cephissus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lykovrysi and Acharnes.
Lykovrysi
Suburb
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lykovrysi is a town in the North Athens regional unit, Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lykovrysi-Pefki, of which it is a municipal unit/community.
Acharnes
Suburb
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Acharnes, also known as Menidi, is a municipality in the East Attica regional unit in Greece. With 108,169 inhabitants, it is the ninth most populous municipality in Greece. It lies just north of the Athens urban area. Acharnes is situated 3 km west of Cephissus.
Pefki
Suburb
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Pefki is a town and a suburb in the northeastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Lykovrysi-Pefki, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit and is part of North Athens regional unit. Pefki is situated 3½ km southeast of Cephissus.
Cephissus
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Kifisia, Athens Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Cephissus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيفيسوس”
- Asturian: “Ríu Cephissus”
- Catalan: “Cefís de l’Àtica”
- Catalan: “Cefís”
- Cebuano: “Kifisós Potamós”
- Chinese: “基菲索斯河”
- Dutch: “Attische Cephissus”
- Finnish: “Kifisós”
- French: “Céphise”
- German: “Kifisos”
- Greek: “Αττικός Κηφισός”
- Greek: “Κηφισός Αττικής”
- Greek: “Κηφισός”
- Greek: “Κηφισσός”
- Irish: “Cephissus”
- Italian: “Cefiso”
- Japanese: “キフィソス川”
- Ladin: “Cephissus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kifisós i Attikí”
- Portuguese: “Cefiso”
- Russian: “Кефисс”
- Russian: “Кифисос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kefis”
- Spanish: “Cefiso”
- Swedish: “Kefissos”
- Tamil: “செபிசஸ்”
- Turkish: “Kifisos”
- Ukrainian: “Кіфісос”
- Urdu: “کیفیسوس”
- Venetian: “Fiume Cefiso”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cephissus”. Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.