Haidari ( Greek : Χαϊδάρι , Chaidari ) is a suburban town in the western part of the Athens agglomeration , west of Athens city center.
5-514: The municipality has an area of 22.655 km. The geography of the municipality of Haidari is diverse: the eastern part, where the town Haidari is situated, is densely populated and forms a continuous built up area with the inner suburbs of central Athens. The rocky Aigaleo hills run through the central part of the municipality. The pine forest of Dafni and the Daphni Monastery lie on the eastern slopes of Aigaleo. The westernmost part of Haidari
10-806: Is the small industrial port town Skaramagkas , on the Saronic Gulf near Eleusis . The main roads of Haidari are the Greek National Road 8 (the old road from Athens to Corinth ) and the Iera odos . During the Turkish rule Haidari belonged to a certain Haydar Pasha , which may have been a nickname from the Arabic word haydar , meaning 'lion'. The Haidari concentration camp (Greek: στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης Χαϊδαρίου, stratópedo syngéntrosis Chaidaríou , German: KZ Chaidari)
15-596: The Athens plain, southeast of Eleusis , and east of the island of Salamis . Most of the mountain is rocky (limestone). It is lower than Hymettus . Most of the forest is to its north where the Daphni Monastery is located. There is also a park in its northern reaches. With its good view of the Straits of Salamis , Mount Egaleo was the site of Xerxes ' throne from which he observed the Battle of Salamis . Towns and places that surround
20-487: The mountain include Perama , Drapetsona , Nikaia , Korydallos , the highway , and Chaidari . The Athens Metro connects the area after reducing Iera Odos (Sacred Way) into two lanes in 2002–2003. A highway linking GR-8 and Keratsini runs through this mountain range. The refineries of Skaramangas are in the north. The new bypass on the northwestern part of the range is part of the Attiki Odos superhighway system,
25-751: Was a concentration camp operated by the German Schutzstaffel in Haidari during the Axis Occupation of Greece from September 1943 to September 1944. The camp is now a monument to the Greek Resistance . Egaleo (mountain) Aigaleo or Egaleo ( Greek : Αιγάλεω ), and known in antiquity as Poikilon Oros (Ποικίλον Όρος), is a mountain next to the Athens urban area, in Attica , Greece . It lies west of
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