Attica
Athens Prefecture
Zografos

Zografos

Zografou is a suburban town of approximately 70,000 inhabitants in the eastern part of the , . It was named after the Greek politician Ioannis Zografos.
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  • Type: Suburb with 71,100 residents
  • Description: suburb of Athens, Greece
  • Also known as: “Zográfos” and “Zografou”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lyceum and Mount Lycabettus.

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.

Peak
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, also known as Lycabettos, Lykabettos or Lykavittos, is a Cretaceous limestone hill in the capital . At 277 meters above sea level, its summit is the highest point in Central Athens and pine trees cover its base.

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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. is situated 4 km west of Zografos.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Vyronas.

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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.

Suburb
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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.

Suburb
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, called in Katharevousa Galatsion, is a town, a northern suburb of agglomeration, Greece, and a municipality of the region. The municipality has an area of 4.026 km2. is situated 4 km north of Zografos.

Zografos

Latitude
37.9774° or 37° 58′ 39″ north
Longitude
23.7707° or 23° 46′ 15″ east
Population
71,100
Elevation
176 metres (577 feet)
Open location code
8G95XQGC+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2336938307
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
8358544
Wiki­data ID
Q218375
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Zografos” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “زوغرافو”
  • Arabic: “زوغرافوس، أتيكي”
  • Belarusian: “Заграфу”
  • Bengali: “জগ্রাফু”
  • Bulgarian: “Зографу”
  • Catalan: “Zografou”
  • Cebuano: “Zográfos (kapital sa prepektura sa Gresya)”
  • Cebuano: “Zografos”
  • Cebuano: “Zográfos”
  • Chinese: “佐格拉富”
  • Czech: “Zográfou”
  • Danish: “Zografou”
  • Dutch: “Zografos”
  • Dutch: “Zografou”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “زوجرافو”
  • Esperanto: “Zografos”
  • Esperanto: “Zografu”
  • Esperanto: “Ζωγράφου”
  • Finnish: “Zográfou”
  • French: “Zografos”
  • French: “Zográfou”
  • German: “Zografos”
  • Greek: “Ζωγράφος Αθηνών”
  • Greek: “Ζωγράφος Αττικής”
  • Greek: “Ζωγράφος”
  • Greek: “Ζωγράφου”
  • Gujarati: “ઝોગ્રાફૌ”
  • Hindi: “जोगराफू”
  • Hungarian: “Zografou”
  • Hungarian: “Zográfu”
  • Indonesian: “Zografou”
  • Irish: “Zografou”
  • Italian: “Zografo”
  • Japanese: “ゾクラフウ”
  • Japanese: “ゾグラフォウ”
  • Kannada: “ಝೋಗ್ರಾಫ್”
  • Korean: “조가르푸”
  • Latvian: “Zografa”
  • Lithuanian: “Zografas”
  • Malay: “Zografou”
  • Marathi: “झोग्राफॉउ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zagrafou”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zográfou”
  • Persian: “زگرافو”
  • Polish: “Zografos”
  • Portuguese: “Zografos”
  • Portuguese: “Zografu”
  • Romanian: “Zografou”
  • Russian: “Зографос”
  • Russian: “Зографу”
  • Serbian: “Зографу”
  • Sinhala: “සොග්‍රෆු”
  • Slovenian: “Zografos”
  • Slovenian: “Zografou”
  • Swedish: “Zográfos (prefekturhuvudort i Grekland)”
  • Swedish: “Zografos”
  • Swedish: “Zográfos”
  • Tamil: “ஜோக்ராபோவு”
  • Telugu: “జోగ్రాఫాను”
  • Thai: “โซกราฟู”
  • Turkish: “Zografu”
  • Turkish: “Zuğra”
  • Ukrainian: “Зографу”
  • Urdu: “زوگرافؤ”
  • Vietnamese: “Zografou”
  • “Ζωγράφου”

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