Chaidari is a suburb in the west northwestern part of Athens

Athens

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, Greece

Greece

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. The two mountaintops of Aigaleo lies to the north and south. It is also located SE of Eleusis, S of the Attiki Odos

Attiki Odos

Attiki Odos is a privately owned toll motorway in Greece. The Proastiakos high-speed suburban rail is set almost entirely in the median of the motorway, along its main section. The motorway's numbers are 6 for the main section, 64 for the Hymettus Beltway and 65 for the Aigaleo Beltway...

 (number 6), W of Kifissou Avenue (GR-1

Greek National Road 1

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/E75

European route E75

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, and Athens

Athens

Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

, NW of Poseidonos Avenue

Poseidonos Avenue

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 and N of Piraeus

Piraeus

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Geography

The eastern portion of Chaidari was mainly made up of farmlands. Pasture farming was common. Urban development replaced much of the farmlands between the 1950s and the 1980s. Today, the eastern half of the municipality is urbanized or residential. The rocky landscape of Aigaleo with a few bushes lies to the north and northwest. The pine

Pine

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 forests of Dafni along with a monastery

Daphni Monastery

Dafní or Daphní is a monastery 11 km north-west of downtown Athens in Chaidari, south of Athinon Avenue . It is situated near the forest of the same name, on the Sacred Way that led to Eleusis...

 and a forest park lie to the west and the southwest.

Concentration camp

The Haidari concentration camp (Greek: στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης Χαϊδαρίου, stratópedo syngéntrosis Chaidaríou, German: KZ Chaidari) was a concentration camp operated by the German Schutzstaffel in Haidari during the Axis Occupation of Greece from September 1943 to September 1944.

The camp is now a monument to the Greek Resistance

Greek Resistance

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Historical population

Year	Municipal district	Municipality
1981	-	47,396
1991	44,831	47,437
2001	45,227	46,276

External links

• Municipal website