Aigaleo

Aigaleo or Egaleo is a town and a suburban municipality in the western part of the , belonging to the West Athens regional administrative unit.
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  • Type: Suburb with 69,900 residents
  • Description: suburb of Athens, Greece
  • Also known as: “Aiyaleo”, “Egaleo”, and “Pyritidopoieio”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Platonic Academy and Peristeri Stadium.

Archaeological site
Photo: Raphael, Public domain.
The Academy was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium in , a city and a suburb within the agglomeration, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Atromitos.

Mosque
Photo: NikosLikomitros, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Votanikos Mosque, more commonly known as the or the Athens Mosque, is a in the neighbourhood of , . It is the first official mosque in the Greek capital since the Greek War of Independence.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Piraeus.

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is the capital city of with a metropolitan population of 3.6 million inhabitants based on ELSTAT Census but with undocumented population it reaches 5.2 million.

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The is the ancient port of , and still functions as the chief exit point from the city by sea, for destinations among the Aegean Islands and elsewhere in the east Mediterranean.

Suburb
is a city and a suburban municipality in the western part of the , . With 133,630 inhabitants, it ranks as the seventh-largest city and municipality in Greece by population.

Aigaleo

Latitude
37.9916° or 37° 59′ 30″ north
Longitude
23.6819° or 23° 40′ 55″ east
Population
69,900
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GR GAH
Open location code
8G95XMRJ+JP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 612287363
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
265533
Wiki­data ID
Q985455
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Aigaleo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أيغاليو، أتيكي”
  • Arabic: “أيغاليو”
  • Armenian: “Էգալեո”
  • Asturian: “Aigaleo”
  • Asturian: “Egaleo”
  • Asturian: “Αιγάλεω”
  • Belarusian: “Эгалео”
  • Bengali: “এগালেও”
  • Bulgarian: “Егалео”
  • Cebuano: “Aigáleo”
  • Chinese: “艾加莱奥”
  • Chinese: “艾加萊奧”
  • Danish: “Aigaleo”
  • Dutch: “Aigaleo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايجاليو”
  • Esperanto: “Egaleo”
  • Finnish: “Aigáleo”
  • French: “Aigaleo”
  • French: “Aigáleo”
  • French: “Egaleo”
  • French: “Egáleo”
  • German: “Egaleo”
  • Greek: “Αιγάλεω Αττικής”
  • Greek: “Αιγάλεω”
  • Greek: “Κοινότητα Αιγάλεω”
  • Greek: “Πυριτιδοποιείο Αττικής”
  • Gujarati: “ઇગાલિયો”
  • Hebrew: “אגאלאו”
  • Hindi: “एगएलेओ”
  • Hungarian: “Egáleo”
  • Indonesian: “Egaleo”
  • Irish: “Egaleo”
  • Italian: “Egaleo”
  • Japanese: “エガレオ”
  • Kannada: “ಎಗಾಲೆಯೋ”
  • Korean: “이겔로”
  • Latin: “Aegaleo”
  • Latin: “Aegaleus”
  • Latvian: “Aigaleo”
  • Lithuanian: “Egalėjas”
  • Malay: “Egaleo”
  • Marathi: “एगालिओ”
  • Moksha: “Эгалэо”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Egaleo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Aigaleo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Egáleo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Egáleo i Aten”
  • Persian: “اگالئو”
  • Polish: “Aigaleo”
  • Polish: “Egaleo”
  • Portuguese: “Egaleo”
  • Romanian: “Aegaleo”
  • Romanian: “Aigaleo”
  • Romanian: “Aigaleon”
  • Romanian: “Egaleo”
  • Russian: “Эгалео”
  • Serbian: “Egaleo”
  • Serbian: “Егалео”
  • Sinhala: “එගලියෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Aigaleo”
  • Slovenian: “Egaleo”
  • Slovenian: “Αιγάλεω”
  • Spanish: “Egaleo”
  • Swedish: “Aigaleo”
  • Swedish: “Aigáleo”
  • Tamil: “எக்ளேவ்”
  • Telugu: “ఎగాలియో”
  • Thai: “อีกาเลโอ”
  • Turkish: “Egaleo”
  • Turkish: “Egye”
  • Ukrainian: “Егалео”
  • Urdu: “ایگالیو”
  • Vietnamese: “Aegaleo”

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