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Papagou
Sign in to savePapagou ( or Παπάγος Papagos) is a suburban town and municipal unit in the eastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. The town is named after Marshal Alexandros Papagos, a general who led the Greek Army in the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, before becoming Prime Minister of Greece. The Greek Ministry of National Defense is located in town.
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- Locality
- Δήμος Ζωγράφου
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Αττικής
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 13,962
- Timezone
- Europe/Athens
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Papagou
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Παπάγου
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Papagou.svg
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Attica 06-13 Hills of Hymettus 18 view.jpg
- Greek Dimos.elevation
- 200
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within North Athens regional unit
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Attica
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- North Athens
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Papagou-Cholargos
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 13962
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 3.375
- Greek Dimos.postal_code
- 156 69
- Greek Dimos.area_code
- 210 65
- Greek Dimos.licence
- I, Y, Z
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Named after
- Alexandros Papagos
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- 13699
- Elevation
- 200
- Shares border with
- Athens
- Image
- Dimarxeio-papagou.jpg
- Dialing code
- 210
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- Commons category
- Papagou
- postal code
- 156 69
- native label
- Παπάγος
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Papagou ( or Παπάγος Papagos) is a suburban town and municipal unit in the eastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. The town is named after Marshal Alexandros Papagos, a general who led the Greek Army in the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, before becoming Prime Minister of Greece. The Greek Ministry of National Defense is located in town.
Papagou was part of the municipality of Cholargos until 1965, when it became a separate community. It became a municipality in 1982. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Papagou-Cholargos, of which it is a municipal unit according to the Kallikratis Plan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Papagou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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