Petroupoli

Petroupoli (Greek, modern: Πετρούπολη , Ancient/Katharevousa: -is), older form Petroupolis ("Stone city") is a suburb in the west northwestern part of Athens, Greece. The two mountaintops of Aigaleo lies to the north and south. It is also located ESE of Eleusis, S of the Attiki Odos (number 6), W of Kifissou Avenue (GR-1/E75, and Athens, NW of Poseidonos Avenue and N of Piraeus. The main streets are one linking to Chaidari, another to Kamatero and SE to Peristeri and Kamatero.

Mayor of Petroupoli was from 1964-1967 and from 1975-1994 Nikolaos Paximadas (Νικόλαος Παξιμαδάς) a member of KKE (communist party)

Geography

The eastern and the portion of Petroupoli were mainly made up of farmlands. Pasture farming and groves were common. Urban development replaced much of the farmlands between the 1950s and the 1990s and continues until the late-1990s and rarely continuing. Today, the eastern and the central part of the municipality are urbanized or residential. The rocky landscape of Aigaleo with a few bushes lies to the west and to the north. Mining was common in the western part between the 1960s and the late-20th century. One of the abandoned quarry located nearly 1 km northwest turned into a park or few became sporting areas. The Petra festival takes plave every summer. The mountain range is to its municipal boundary to the northwest and the mountaintop of the northern part of the mountaintop is north of the city hall.

The streets in the central part of Petroupoli runs southwest to northeast and southeast to northwest. The southern and the eastern residential streets are mixed. The junior football/soccer team is named Aris Petroupoli.

Other

Petroupoli has kindergarten, dimotika schools, lyceums, gymnasia, banks, a police station, a post office, supermarkets, parks and sporting fields including several near the mountain and squares (plateies).

Historical population

References

Andreas A. Milionis. I Poli tis Petras, March 2005 (Greek) Ανδρέας Α. Μηλιώνης, Η πόλη της πέτρας (έκδοση του Δήμου Πετρούπολης, Μάρτιος 2005 Ιστορικά Στοιχεία

Links

Petroupoli Attica, Satellite image