Agios_Stefanos,_Attica

Agios Stefanos, Attica

Agios Stefanos, Attica

Municipal unit in Greece

Agios Stefanos (Greek: Άγιος Στέφανος, romanized: Ágios Stéfanos, meaning Saint Stephen) is a town and a northern suburb of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Dionysos, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.[2] The municipal unit has an area of 8.136 km2.[3]

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Geography

Agios Stefanos is situated in the hills in the northeastern part of the Athens conurbation, at about 350 m elevation. It lies east of the Parnitha mountains, northwest of the Penteliko Mountain, and 4 km southwest of the Marathon Reservoir. The source of the river Kifisos is near Agios Stefanos. It is 9 km west of Marathon and 21 km northeast of Athens city centre. Its built-up area is continuous with those of the neighbouring suburbs Anoixi and Stamata to the south.

Motorway 1 (Athens - Lamia - Thessaloniki) passes west of the town. Agios Stefanos has a railway station on the railway from Athens to Thessaloniki. Athens ERA-1 transmitter, the second tallest man-made structure of Greece, is situated north of Agios Stefanos.

Historical population

Agios Stefanos has historically been an Arvanite settlement.[4]

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
  2. [2]
    "ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
  3. [3]
    "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-09-21.
  4. [4]
    Hans-Jürgen Sasse (1991). Arvanitika: die albanischen Sprachreste in Griechenland. Vol. 1. p. 18. ISBN 9783447027588.
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