Agios Stefanos
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Agios Stefanos is a rather exclusive suburb in Attica
Attica
Attica is a historical region of Greece, containing Athens, the current capital of Greece. The historical region is centered on the Attic peninsula, which projects into the Aegean Sea...

, Greece
Greece
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, about 23 km north of Athens. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Dionysos
Dionysos, Greece
Dionysos is a residential suburb and a municipality in northeastern Attica, Greece — just about 23 km northeast of Athens. The seat of the municipality is the town Agios Stefanos. Dionysos is almost purely residential, but there are a few shops....

, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.

Agios Stefanos is almost entirely residential, but a few shops line its main street. The suburb is situated in the northern part of the Athenian plain, between the Parnitha
Parnitha
Mount Parnitha is a densely forested mountain range north of Athens, the highest on the peninsula of Attica, with an elevation of 1,413 m and a summit known as Karavola...

 mountain and the mountain range to the east, and is accessed via two interchanges, with GR-1
Greek National Road 1
The Greek Motorway 1 is a motorway, partly under construction, and the 2nd longest in Greece. It is the principal north-south road connection in Greece, connecting the country's capital Athens with the regions of Thessaly and Macedonia, as well as the country's second largest city,...

/E75
European route E75
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 (Athens - Lamia - Thessaloniki) at the 21st and the 24th km with the GR-83
Greek National Road 83
Greek National Road 83 is a national highway of Greece. It connects Gerakas with Marathonas and Aghios Stefanos at the junction with Greek National Road 1....

 and 1.3 km south of the tolls. It is linked with a road to Anixi, and the Cephissus
Cephissus (Athenian plain)
Cephissus , Kifissós) or Cephisus Kifisos), a river flowing through the Athenian plain.In his summary of Greek mythology Apollodorus declares that Erechtheus' wife Praxithea was daughter of Phrasimus by Diogenia daughter of Cephissus.This river is found in the western part of the...

 River lies to the west. Agios Stefanos is located SE of Thiva, S of Euboea
Euboea
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 and Oropos
Oropos
Oropos is a small town and a municipality in East Attica, Greece.-Geography:It is situated on the southern Euboean Gulf, opposite Eretria. Oropos is located N of Avlona and Athens, E of Thebes and SE of Chalcis. Oropos is linked with the road linking Nea Palatia and Sikamino...

, W of Marathon
Marathon, Greece
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, NE of Kifissia
Kifissia
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 and NE 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).

Until the 1960s and the 1970s, farmlands covered the area around Agios Stefanos, of which a remainder still exists around the locality. Forests still covers part of the area, while most of the population are urban, having in the 1960s and the 1970s once been rural. Luxury residences arrived in Agios Stefanos in the 1970s and continued into the 1990s, and development continues to this day.

Other

Agios Stefanos has a few schools, lyceums, a few gymnasia, banks, churches, a post office and a few squares (plateies
Plateia
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). The second tallest man-made structure of Greece the mast of Athens ERA-1 transmitter
Athens ERA-1 transmitter
Athens ERA-1 Transmitter is a facility of Greek broadcasting transmission for broadcasting the program of ERA-1 on 729 kHz with 150 kW in the standard mediumwave band. Athens ERA-1 transmitter uses as antenna a 210 metres tall mast radiator insulated against ground, which is a lattice structure...

is situated north of Agios Stefanos.

Historical population

Year Town population Municipality population
1981 2,388 -
1991 5,243 5,333
2001 8,790 8,961
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