Aegaleo
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Aegaleo, commonly Aigaleo or Egaleo (Greek: Αιγάλεω) is a municipality west of Athens, Greece. It is situated west of the Cephissos river. Its population is around 120,000.
One quarter of the municipality is industrialized mainly in the east where the Cephissus valley is located and is connected as the Athens Industrial Area. Its city newspaper since 1985 has the same name with the suburban city called Aegaleo.
It used to be the seat of Western Attica. The present mayor of the city is Dimitris Kalogeropoulos (New Democracy).
The community will have a subway station named Aegaleo.
Some of the biggest problems for the past few decades were smog and traffic congestion.