Aspropyrgos

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Aspropyrgos (Ασπρόπυργος)
Coordinates	38°4′ N 23°35′ E
Country	Greece
Periphery	Attica
Prefecture	West Attica
Population	27,741 source (2001)
Elevation	9 m
Postal code	193 00
Area code	210
Licence plate code	Z
Website	www.aspropyrgos.gr

Aspropyrgos (Greek: Ασπρόπυργος for white tower). is a suburban community located 20 NW of Athens in the heart of the Thriasian plain, and Thria was known in ancient times. The population is around 27,500. Its dialing code is 210.

Its main street is Dimokratias Avenue. Aspropyrgos used to be a petroleum|oil producing community and oil was its main industry along with agriculture. Agriculture is, however, rare today. Eleusis military airport forms its communal and municipal boundary in its west. Mount Parnitha is in the northeast. A small port is founded in the south and the shores are aligned with trees. Willow and other types of pineless trees dominate the city's coastline. Aegaleo mountain is in the southwest and its landscape is rocky. Its nearest highway is GR-8A/E94 with its interchange at 2 km south of the centre. The interchange was a junction until 1994. It was closed off from 1996 until 1997 to extend the number of lanes to four. The main street also serves a road that linked the Peloponnese and the northern and eastern suburbs of Athens. The industrial area is in the southeastern part of the Aspropyrgos and the entire south is also industrialized. Attiki Odos is now accessible to its north with an interchange. The high-speed rail will be founded to the north but will have no nearby station.

The refinery south of the city is producing oil since its opening. The size and production is smaller than Corinth's refinery. Pollution has been a problem for years. The refinery includes depots in the southern and the eastern part and some in the western part and a dock to the southwest. The Skaramangas Bay is to the south.

A lagoon where the area is less than 1 km². The highway is in the west and the boundary with Chaidari is in the south. The Aegaleo Ring is situated in the east but not fully accessible.

Aspropyrgos has schools, lyceums, gymnasia, banks, a post office, a train station, a port, and squares (plateia).

1 Communities
2 Nearest places
3 Historical population
4 See also

[edit] Communities

Aspropyrgos

[edit] Nearest places

Fyli (north)
Ano Liosia, NE
Elefsina, W
Skaramangas, SE, S

[edit] Historical population

Year	Municipal population	Change	Municipal population	Change
1981	12,541	-	-	-
1991	15,034	2,493/19.88%	15,715	-

681 inhabitants (as of 1991) live in another community.

Northwest: Magoula	North: Dervenochori
West: Eleusis	Aspropyrgos	East: Fyli and Ano Liosia
Southwest: Gulf of Eleusis	South: Chaidari	Southeast: Petroupolis