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Ilioupoli
Ilioupoli (, " Sun City") is a suburban municipality and a town in Central Athens regional unit and located in the central-southern part of the Athens agglomeration. Its name is the modern form of the ancient name of Heliopolis in Egypt. Development of Ilioupoli started around 1924, when Greek refugees from Asia Minor settled there. Geography Ilioupoli is southeast of Athens city centre. The municipality has an area of 12.724 km2. It lies at the western foot of the forested Hymettus mountain, which covers the eastern half of the municipality. Its built-up area is continuous with those of neighbouring suburbs Ymittos, Agios Dimitrios, Alimos and Argyroupoli. The main thoroughfares are Vouliagmenis Avenue, which connects Ilioupoli with central Athens, and Venizelou Avenue, which connects with the A62 Hymettus Ring Road (formerly the A64 until 2024). Ilioupoli metro station is served by Line 2 of the Athens Metro. Ilioupoli is also linked by bus to downtown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ilioupoli F
Ilioupoli (, "Sun City") is a suburban municipality and a town in Central Athens regional unit and located in the central-southern part of the Athens agglomeration. Its name is the modern form of the ancient name of Heliopolis in Egypt. Development of Ilioupoli started around 1924, when Greek refugees from Asia Minor settled there. Geography Ilioupoli is southeast of Athens city centre. The municipality has an area of 12.724 km2. It lies at the western foot of the forested Hymettus mountain, which covers the eastern half of the municipality. Its built-up area is continuous with those of neighbouring suburbs Ymittos, Agios Dimitrios, Alimos and Argyroupoli. The main thoroughfares are Vouliagmenis Avenue, which connects Ilioupoli with central Athens, and Venizelou Avenue, which connects with the A62 Hymettus Ring Road (formerly the A64 until 2024). Ilioupoli metro station is served by Line 2 of the Athens Metro. Ilioupoli is also linked by bus to downtown Ath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
GS Ilioupoli
GS Ilioupolis () is a multi-sport club based in Ilioupoli, Greece. The club was founded in 1953, and it has about 2,000 athletes competing in nine sports. Colours and crest GS Ilioupoli's colours are red and blue and its logo features a setting sun on its nearby mountains and the ground. Sports * Basketball (Men's and Women's) * Football * Judo * Tennis * Track and field * Swimming * Volleyball (Men's and Women's) * Water polo * Handball (''defunct'') * Futsal (''defunct'') Football team The football team of Ilioupolis achieved promotion to the Beta Ethniki (2nd tier championship) during the 2021–22 season. Honours * Gamma Ethniki ** Winners (1): 2021–22 Players Current squad Basketball team Ilioupolis has basketball team both men's and women's. The basketball team of GS Ilioupolis plays in the Athens local divisions. Biggest success of the club was winning the Gamma Ethniki championship, in the season 1994–95 Volleyba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ilioupoli Metro Station
Ilioupoli, also known as Ilioupoli–Grigoris Lambrakis (), is an intermediate station on Athens Metro Line 2. It opened with the Elliniko extension on 26 July 2013. The station is adjacent to Vouliagmenis Avenue. History Ilioupoli originally opened without the Grigoris Lambrakis qualifier, but the Municipality of Ilioupoli had for years requested Attiko Metro (now Elliniko Metro) to name the station after the anti-war activist An anti-war movement is a social movement in opposition to one or more nations' decision to start or carry on an armed conflict. The term ''anti-war'' can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conf ..., who was also a member of the Greek resistance. Elliniko Metro agreed to change the station name to ''Ilioupoli-Grigoris Lambrakis'', which came into effect on 22 May 2015. Station layout References Railway stations in Greece opened in 2013 Athens Metro stations {{Greece-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Line 2 (Athens Metro)
Line 2 of the Athens Metro runs entirely underground from in the northwest to in the south, via . It first opened, between and , on 28 January 2000, with Line 3 (Athens Metro), Line 3. On 6 April 2013, Line 2 was extended to Anthoupoli in the north west, and on 26 July 2013 to Elliniko to the south. History Line 2 is one of two modern metro lines, along with Line 3 (Athens Metro), Line 3 that were built to reduce traffic congestion in the Athens urban area. Both lines were opened on 28 January 2000, with Line 2 initially running between and : the initial section of Line 2 included an interchange with Hellenic Train services (then operated directly by the Hellenic Railways Organisation) at Athens railway station, Larissa Station, two interchanges with Line 1 (Athens Metro), Line 1 at and , and one interchange with Line 3 at Syntagma. The first extension of Line 2, between Syntagma and , opened on 15 November 2000. The source reported that the opening ceremony took place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Attica (region)
Attica ( ; , ) is an administrative regions of Greece, administrative region of Greece, that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, the core city of which is the country's capital city, capital and Cities of Greece, largest city, Athens. The region is coextensive with the former Attica Prefecture of Central Greece (geographic region), Central Greece and covers a greater area than the historical region of Attica. Overview Located on the eastern edge of Central Greece (geographic region), Central Greece, Attica covers about 3,808 square kilometres. In addition to Athens, it contains within its area the cities of Elefsina, Megara, Laurium, and Marathon, Greece, Marathon, as well as a small part of the Peloponnese peninsula and the islands of Salamis Island, Salamis, Aegina, Angistri, Poros, Hydra, Saronic Islands, Hydra, Spetses, Kythira, and Antikythera. About 3,790,000 people live in the region, of whom more than 95% are inhabitants of the Athens metropolitan area. In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
