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!bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=2|Aegaleo
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|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Elevation:|| 469
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|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Latitude:||38° N
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|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Longitude:||23.7/23°41" E
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|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Location:||southern [[Attica]]
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|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Distance|Length:|| approx. 20 km, north to south<br>approx. from 3 to 5 km from east to west
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|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Easiest route:||climb
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'''Aegaleo''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] Αιγάλεω ''Aigáleo'', [[Latin]] ''Aegaleus''), also '''Aigaleo''' and '''Egaleo''', is a mountain in [[Greece]]. It is situated west of [[Athens]], southeast of [[Eleusis]], east of the island of [[Salamis]] and northwest of [[Piraeus]]. Most of the mountain is rocky. It is shorter than [[Hymettus]]. Most of the forest is to its north where the monastery [[Daphni]] (Daphnion) is located. It is also a park in its north. This is a range which surrounds the tiny coast southwest of Chaidari.

Towns and places surround the mountain are [[Perama]], [[Piraeus]], [[Drapetsona]], [[Nikaia]], [[Korydallos|Korydallos (Corydallos)]], [[Greece Interstate 8A|the highway]], and [[Chaidari]]. The [[Athens Metro|subway]] now connects the area after opening its first station after reducing Iera Odos (Sacred Way) into two lanes in 2002-2003.

A highway linking GR-8 and Piraeus runs through this mountain range. Refineries of [[Skaramangas]] is in the north. The new bypass on the northwestern part of the range which is part of the [[Attiki Odos]] superhighway system, the Aegaleo Ring (Number 65) which was opened on January, [[2004]] along with the rest of the superhighway northwest of the range. The ring presently doesn't have full access with Athinon Avenue and GR-8 yet but contains two interchanges of which two of them are single access interchanges.

On [[December 19]], [[2004]], hailstorms hit Aegaleo again and it reminded some like snow. It skidded some cars and caused troubles in traffic.

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[[Category:Athens]]
[[Category:Mountains of Greece]]

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Lazarus at 21:44, December 13, 2006