Zografou

Zografou is a suburb of approximately 71,000 within the japanese a part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. Actual the network reports a populace of 150.000 inhabitants. It became named after the Greek politician Ioannis Zografos. To the east of Zografou lies mount Hymettus. The location, being near the centre of Athens, developed similar city sprawl traits, with excessive-rise buildings of even 10 testimonies tall being the norm. The city is also home to the Athens college campus and polytechnical college campus and therefore, a amazing a part of its population is university college students.

Zografou consists of the smaller regions of Ilissia and Goudi. After the departure of the Ottomans from the vicinity in the 1830s, the vicinity got here into the ownership of Ioannis Koniaris, mayor of Athens from 1851 to 1854, and Leonidas Vournazos. In 1902, Eleni Vournazos, widow of Leonidas, sells 1,250 stremma of the Kouponia/Goudi location to Ioannis Zografos died 1927, a Member of Parliament for the Nationalist Party and university professor. Dividing it into plots, he offered them for installments of 112 drachma consistent with month. The first homes have been erected in 1919. Within ten years, one hundred have been built. At this time, the principles of the Church of St. Theraponta were erected.