Aegaleo, commonly
Aigaleo or
Egaleo (
Greek ?????e?) is a municipality west of
Athens,
Greece, situated west of the
Cephissos river and southeast of
Mount Egaleo. Its population was 74,046 at the 2001 census, and one quarter of the municipality is industrialized, mainly to the east where the Cephissus valley is located, and is connected as the
Athens Industrial Area; an original name for Egaleo was "Nees Kidonies". Most of its citizens are workers
[citation needed], and the city's soccer team is
Egaleo FC, while its
city newspaper since 1985 shares the city's name, known as
Aigaleo. This area used to be the seat of Western Attica, and the city's present mayor is
Dimitris Kalogeropoulos. The community is served by a
subway station sharing the name
Egaleo; about 1/4 of its area is taken up by factory developments, and one of the biggest problems for this locality in recent decades has been traffic congestion
[citation needed].
