EGALEO

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'Aegaleo', commonly 'Aigaleo' or 'Egaleo' (Greek: Αιγάλεω) is a municipality west of Athens, Greece. it is situated west of the Cephissos river and southeast of Mount Egaleo. Its population is around 260,000. One quarter of the municipality is industrialized mainly in the east where the Cephissus valley is located and is connected as the Athens Industrial Area. The first name of Egaleo was "Nees Kidonies". Most of its citizens are workers. The soccer team for the city is Egaleo FC. Its city newspaper since 1985 has the same name with the suburban city called ''Aigaleo''. It used to be the seat of Western Attica. The present mayor of the city is Dimitris Kalogeropoulos. The community will have a subway station named Aegaleo. About 1/4 of its area is full with factories. The biggest problems for the past few decades was smog and traffic congestion.
'''Egaleo''' is also the name of the monthly newspaper of this city since 1985.

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Historical population

Subdivisions

Persons

Soccer teams

Sister cities

External links

Historical population

Year	Municipal population	Change	Density
1981	81,906	-	12,698.60/km²
1991	78,563	-3,343/-4.08%	12,180 31/km²

Subdivisions

★ 'Kato Egaleo'

★ 'Neo Egaleo'

Persons

★ Rita Abatzi (1914 in Smyrna, Asia Minor, now İzmir, Turkey - June 17, 1969), a Greek musician

★ Keti Garbi, Greek singers

★ George Zampetas, Greek musician

★ Sophia Strati, Greek singers

Soccer teams

★ Egaleo FC

Sister cities

★ Reggio Calabria, Italy

External links

★ Coordinates:

★ Municipality of Egaleo

★ Egaleo (newspaper)

'Northwest:' Chaidari	'North:' Peristeri
'West:' Agia Varvara	'Aegaleo'	'East:' Athens
'Southwest:' Nikaia	'South:' Aghios Ioannis Rentis