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Fyli

Statistics
Prefecture: Attica
Metropolitan Area: Athens
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:

38.10133 (38°6'8") N lat.
23.6635 (23°39'52") E long.
Population: (1991)
 - Total
 - Density
 - Rank

 2,925


Elevation:
 -lowest:
 -centre:

about 20 m
330 m(centre)
about 700 to 800 m
Postal code: 133
Area/distance code: 11-30-210 (030-210)
-240 thru 249
Municipal code: 1112
Car designation: Y (prev.)
Z pres.
3-letter abbreviation: FYI (Fyli)
Address of administration: Central Square
Fyli 133

Fyli or Fili (Greek: Φυλή), Latin and ancient form: Phyle, is a suburb in the northwestern part of Athens, Greece. Fyli is accessed with the Attiki Odos to the south near Aspropyrgos to the southwest. The mountains of Parnitha lies to the north and northeast while the plain where Eleusis is founded lies to the south. The Proasteiakos also runs to the north. It is located S of Thiva and Chalkida, W of GR-1 and east Attica, about 20 km NE of Eleusis and E of the Peloponnese.

The area around Fyli are made up of farmlands that were mainly pastures or groves. Suburban housing arrived in the 1980s.

Fyli has schools, a few lyceums, a gymnasium, banks, a post office and a fewsquares (plateies).

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Historical population

Year Town population Change Municipal population
1981 2,135 - -
1991 2,917 782/36.63% 2,925

History

In 404 BC Thrasybulus and the exiles from Phyle seized Munychia

External links




Northwest: Dervenochori North: Avlona
West: Aspropyrgos
Fyli East: Acharnae
South: Aspropyrgos and Ano Liosia Southeast: Ano Liosia

See also:

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