Colonus

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85% Greeks |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Elevation:
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about 35
40 m(centre)
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List of postal codes in Greece

The Greek postal code system is is administered by Hellenic Post . Each city street or rural region has a unique five-digit number. The first three digits identify the city, municipality or prefecture....
: || 104 xx |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Area/distance code: || 11-30-210 (030-210)-2
|---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Name of inhabitants: || Colonian sing.
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In classical Greece

Classical Greece

Classical Greece was a culture that was highly advanced and which heavilly influenced the cultures of Ancient Rome and much of the Western World....
Hippeios Colonus was a deme

Deme

In Ancient Greece, a deme was a subdivision of Attica, the region of Greece surrounding Classical Athens. Demes as simple subdivisions of land in the countryside seem to have existed in the 6th century BC and earlier, but did not acquire particular significance until the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC....
about 1 km (1 mile) to the northwest of Athens

Athens

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List of postal codes in Greece

Classical Greece

Classical Greece was a culture that was highly advanced and which heavilly influenced the cultures of Ancient Rome and much of the Western World....
Hippeios Colonus was a deme

Deme

Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, near Plato's Academy. There is also the "Agoraios Kolonos" (????a??? ???????, Colonus of the Agora), a hillock by the Athens

Athens

Agora

The Agora was an open "place of assembly" in ancient Ancient Greece city-states. Early in Greek history , free-born male land-owners who were citizens would gather in the agora for military duty or to hear statements of the ruling king or council....
on which the temple of Hephaestus

Hephaestus

Hephaestus was a Greek god whose Roman equivalent was Vulcan . He was the god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculpture, metals, metallurgy, Fire and volcanoes....
still stands.

Hippeios Colonus held a temple of Poseidon

Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
and a sacred grove

Sacred grove

Sacred groves were a feature of the mythological landscape and the cult of Old European culture, of the most ancient levels of Germanic paganism, Greek mythology, Slavic mythology, Roman mythology, and in Druidry practice....
to the Eumenides

Erinyes

In Greek mythology the Erinyes or Eumenides or Furies in Roman mythology were female, chthonic deities of revenge or supernatural personifications of the anger of the dead....
.

According to Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Oedipus

Oedipus

Oedipus was a Greek mythology monarch of Thebes, Greece. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his mother, and thus brought disaster on his city and family....
was buried there, as described by Sophocles

Sophocles

Sophocles was the second of the three classical Greece tragedy whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides....
, who was born there, in his Oedipus at Colonus

Oedipus at Colonus

Oedipus at Colonus is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles' death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC....
.

Today its modern name is Kolonos and it is a densely populated working-class district of the Municipality

Municipality

A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them....
of Athens.

The subdivision is passed by Lenorman Avenue and streets runs almost diagonally. Konstantinopouleos Avenue and the OSE is to the southeast. The nearest train station is at the Larissa station. In 1992, Athinon Avenue was closed for a construction of an overpass to avoid traffic congestion with railway crossings. The road was detoured with Lenorman Avenue until 1993 when the overpass was first opened. The overpass only has an eastbound off-ramp and a westbound on-ramp.