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  Ano Liosia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ano Liosia or Ano Liossia ( Greek : Άνω Λιόσια) is a suburb in the northern part of Athens, Greece.
Ano Liosia except for the northwest and the southwest were mainly made up of farmlands.
Ano Liosia Olympic Hall where wrestling and judo were played in the 2004 Summer Olympics
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Municipality_of_Ano_(Upper)_Liosion   (438 words)

  
 Europan ENG
The Municipality of Ano Liosia is located at the northwestern outskirts of the Greater Athens Metropolitan Area, at a distance of approximately 12 kilometers from the center of the city of Athens, with which it is connected by Phylis Avenue and Liosion Street.
As a result of this migration, the population of Ano Liosia, which in 1950 was 1.660 inhabitants, reached 11.388 inhabitants by 1971, and 21.397 by 1991.
The composition of the Ano Liosia population is not altogether homogeneous as it regards the origin and the cultural characteristics of the various groups of its residents.
www.liosia.gr /dal/anaplasi/europan.htm   (4443 words)

  
 Athens 1999 quake victims still wait for homes - www.ezboard.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Residents in the working class western Athens suburb of Ano Liosia complain of delays in the rebuilding of the destroyed area and say they do not want to wait another year before they see some improvement in their lives.
Ano Liosia was hit hardest by the devastating quake.
The government's large-scale quake-relief efforts for the resettlement and compensation of all earthquake victims is an estimated 900 billion drachmas.
p199.ezboard.com /fgreeceellasfrm72.showMessage?topicID=33.topic   (598 words)

  
 ATTICA S.O.S.
ATTICA S.O.S. Environmental rehabilitation of Schistos and Ano Liosia landfills
The landfills of Ano Liosia and Schistos, of a land area of 2,500 acres, are modified into areas of green, recreation and cultural activities
The total amount of hydrocarbon deriving from the waste disposal area of Schistos is estimated at 50,000 tons per year, and another 60,000 tons per year deriving from Ano Liosia.
www.minenv.gr /4/44/4401/e440162.html   (536 words)

  
 Report
F Stamou from the Prime Minister’s Private Office, on the subject of the continuing evictions of Roma, particularly by the Mayor of Ano Liosia.
At the Ano Liosia settlement there are about 15 families who are not able to access the rubbish tip.
The children of Aspropyrgos and Ano Liosia are waiting for a decision by the Ministry of Education on how they are going to attend school.
www.greekhelsinki.gr /english/reports/roma-office-activities97.html   (5883 words)

  
 Athens News Agency: Daily News Bulletin in English, 05-06-07
Ano Liosia Mayor Nikos Papadimas closed the landfill last Tuesday, in opposition to the decision of the Ministry of the Environment, Town Planning and Public Works, according to which sludge from Psyttalia would continue to be disposed at Ano Liosia.
It was attended by the mayors of Ano Liosia and Aspropyrgos, the West Attica Prefect and representatives of the Attica municipality and community union, as well as other local bodies.
The Ano Liosia dump is the only landfill for the bulk of the refuse in greater Athens and has been shut for nearly a week by local authorities in the area, which object to its use to dispose of sewage sludge produced by the Psytallia wastewater treatment plant.
www.hri.org /news/greek/ana/2005/05-06-07.ana.html   (6150 words)

  
 Games progress on schedule, say Greece
But other venues including the Ano Liosia judo and wrestling complex and the Hellenikon site, to host basketball, canoe/kayak, handball and softball competitions, are witnessing delays.
"The Ano Liosia hall is experiencing delays because of the seismic makeup of the ground," he said.
The western Athens suburb of Liosia was badly damaged during a strong earthquake that hit the capital in 1999, killing more than 140 people.
inhome.rediff.com /sports/2003/feb/11greece.htm   (494 words)

  
 Akratitos Stadium "Yannis Pathiakakis"
Pathiakakis holds an important place in the history of the club, as he was the one who led them to succesive promotions from the lower amateur divisions to the professional leagues.
The stadium belongs to the Municipality of Ano Liossia
There are plans for the construction of one more stand on the west, similar to the eastern one.
www.geocities.com /greek_stadia/akratitos.html   (490 words)

  
 news.ert.gr - Society - Deadline for Sewage Sludge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Giorgos Souflias, on the issue of the transfer of sewage sludge to the Ano Liosia refuse dump, presented his proposals in detail to the Prefect of West Attica and the Mayor of Ano Liosia.
Mr Souflias made a plea for logic to prevail and gave the relevant bodies of Ano Liosia a deadline to accept the method, otherwise the law will be enforced and the refuse dump will open for sewage sludge.
Mr Souflias reassured the bodies of Ano Liosia that the sludge dehydration unit in Psitalia will be ready in 2007, while in August competitions will take place for the construction of three refuse dumps in Keratea, Grammatiko and Fili.
news.ert.gr /en/newsDetails.asp?id=8821   (563 words)

  
 .: EUROPEAN ROMA RIGHTS CENTER :.
With the exception, however, of ten Romani families — official residents of Ano Liosia — the Romani tent-dwelling population of these two municipalities did not receive any of the prefabricated housing allocated for earthquake victims.
Instead, the mayor of Ano Liosia seized the opportunity to expel local tent-dwelling Roma who were not registered municipal citizens.
Opposing the idea of a self-managed settlement in West Athens, particularly within the borders of the Liosia municipality, Mayor Papadimas, in a letter addressed to the Doctors of the World-Greece, stated in 1999 that the Romani population in Ano Liosia was about to exceed the “8% upper limit” of minority presence.
www.errc.org /cikk.php?cikk=884   (3187 words)

  
 ERRC Letter to the Prime Minister of Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The violations of private and family life to which the Roma of Ano Liosia have been subjected are, furthermore, in violation of Article 8 of the ECHR.
Throughout the continent, Roma and non-Roma are presently uniting in their determination to see that the injustices of the past are rectified and that the continuing exclusion of Roma from European society is overcome.
The European Roma Rights Center appeals to your office to immediately remedy the situation of the Roma in Ano Liosia by removing the wire fence surrounding their settlement, ending the permanent stationing of armed guards at the entrance, and halting all unauthorised searches and related violations of individual rights.
pili.org /lists/piln/archives/msg00043.html   (851 words)

  
 15 September 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A Torchbearer carries the Paralympic Flame at the Municipality of Ano Liosia in Athens.
A blind Torchbearer carries the Paralympic Flame at the Municipality of Ano Liosia in Athens.
A Torchbearer ignites the Cauldron with the Paralympic Flame at the Municipality of Ano Liosia in Athens.
www.athens2004.com /en/15SeptGallery/imagegallery   (172 words)

  
 news.ert.gr - Society - Solution Sought for Effluents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
At the same time, he stressed that he disagrees with transferring the effluents to Ano Liosia tip and that he is persisting with his appeal against the decision by the Supreme Administration Court.
Yesterday’s meeting of Ano Liosia Municipal Council saw clashes between local residents and councillors, as the former demanded immediate closure for the tip.
Anio Liosia Municipality against the Environment Ministry, the Attica Union of Municipalities and Communities and EYDAP
news.ert.gr /en/newsDetails.asp?id=8413   (472 words)

  
 THE Athens (9/99) Earthquake, Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The areas most severely hit were the cities of Menidi, Ano Liosia and Metamorphosi, while damage was observed on many other suburbs like Peristeri.
One of the most important reasons for the damage was the very small epicentral distance of the city of Athens from the fault.
The centre of Athens was approximately less than 10km from the epicenter while the municipality of Ano Liosia was approximately only 2km, Menidi 4km and Metamorphosi 8km.
www.thecivilengineer.org /Ath_earth.htm   (315 words)

  
 Environmental Software & Services - Project Ecosim
The Ano Liosia landfill is the major disposal site of Athens-Greece and it has been in operation since 1973.
It is estimated that until today 27 Mt of wastes have been deposited in Ano Liosia Landfill (14.2 Mt organics, 5.5 Mt paper, 2.5 Mt plastics, 1 Mt metals, 1 Mt glass, 0.8 Mt textiles, wood and leather, 1 Mt inert and 1 Mt other).
It is a moderately steep, semi-arid area, covered by wild vegetation consisting of low plants and grasses.
www.ess.co.at /ECOSIM/athensgw.html   (819 words)

  
 ekathimerini.com | Trash cleanup begins
Riot police protect garbage trucks as they approach the Ano Liosia dump outside Athens yesterday, as police and prosecutors stepped in to try to end a weeklong strike that has left tons of refuse rotting in the streets of Athens and other cities.
Riot police and prosecutors yesterday accompanied convoys of garbage trucks into the dumps at Ano Liosia near Athens and Tagarades at Thessaloniki, breaking through cordons of striking municipal workers in an effort to end a weeklong strike that left tens of thousands of garbage rotting in streets across Greece.
Police used tear gas and clashed with protesters at the Thessaloniki dump and were involved in scuffles with strikers outside the Ano Liosia waste facility.
www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100004_25/10/2003_35604   (524 words)

  
 Phantis: Greek Soccer
The new club gave the Ano Liosia youngsters a way to express themselves through sports during a historic and critical in time period.
Without strong financial backings, but built on players that came up through the Ano Liosia ranks, Akratitos had a great run that made the team known to the entire Attica region.
The most important things of all though was that the team was able to bring together the Ano Liosia community.
sports.phantis.com /soccer/teams/info.php?TeamID=8&who=Akratitos   (180 words)

  
 Ivo OPrsal, Jiri Zahradnik: From unstable to stable seismic modelling by finite-difference method   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Simulation up to 6Hz proves that the intensities of IX at the Ano Liosia suburban area was due to proximity and directivity of the source, as well as due to complex 3D site effects.
found that the bedrock motion in Ano Liosia had its PGA ranging from 0.2 to 0.3 g, resulting from the relatively small epicentral distance (~ 10 km) and the forward source directivity.
The source and site effects were combined with each other by a hybrid technique, allowing fast full-wave 3D calculations up to ~6 Hz on a standard personal computer, and showing that the combined source and site effects in Ano Liosia have provided the PGA values locally exceeding 0.6 g.
karel.troja.mff.cuni.cz /~io/13wcee2004/13wcee2004.htm   (485 words)

  
 A.N.A. Bulletin, 10/06/96
Ano Liosia's municipal council decided yesterday to reopen a landfill in city, which had remained closed since Wednesday in protest over continued delays in relocating the site.
Ano Liosia Mayor Nikos Papadimas proposed yesterday's decision as a goodwill gesture after the intervention of Prime Minister Costas Simitis, while a final decision is sought regarding the creation of new sites for the sanitary burial of the greater Athens area's garbage.
Currently, the Ano Liosia landfill is the capital's primary garbage disposal site.
www.hri.org /news/greek/ana/1996/96-06-10.ana.html   (2424 words)

  
 Attiki Odos - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Its numbers are 6 for the main section and 65 for Aigaleo and Ano Liosion Rings.
The high-speed railway in early to mid 2004 was complete but not opened in the eastern part, up to Kifissos in mid-2004 and in mid to late 2004, the entire section.
Ano Liosia Ring (65) - opening around 2005
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Attiki_Odos   (493 words)

  
 ekathimerini.com | Deadlock on Athens dump
They oppose the dumping at Ano Liosia of sludge from the Psyttaleia sewage treatment plant off Piraeus, despite government pledges that the muck will be mixed with organic matter in a biodegrading process.
Western Attica prefectural authorities and the Ano Liosia municipal council — the two driving forces behind the open-ended protest — are to meet today to decide on continuing the closure.
Municipal and regional authorities oppose the use of the Ano Liosia rubbish dump as a repository for the hundreds of tons of sludge the capital’s main sewage treatment plant, on the islet of Psyttaleia, off Piraeus, produces on a daily basis.
www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100002_03/06/2005_57073   (513 words)

  
 Roma Rights / Nr 1, 2000 -- snapshots from around Europe
In the first five months after their arrival at the site, the settlement was flooded five times (see “Abuse of Roma by police and municipal authorities in Greece” in the “Snapshots around Europe” section of Roma Rights 1/1999).
Those with residence permits in Ano Liosia — approximately half of the Roma — were resettled in temporary housing for victims of the 1999 Athens earthquake.
Those without residence permits in the municipality were effectively evicted, and as of April 14, 2000, some were living next to a garbage dump in the municipality of Aspropyrgos, on the border with Ano Liosia.
lists.errc.org /rr_nr1_2000/snap2.shtml   (365 words)

  
 MINISTRY OF CULTURE
Ouranou and widening of Vorporou str) which connects the project with the west circumferential avenue Egaleo.
There is the football field of Ano Liossia in the vicinity of the Project, which is used by the local team of “Akratitos”.
Construction of an Indoor Gym, with a capacity of 9300 spectators, fully equipped, situated in Ano Liossia, where the sports of wrestling and judo will take place, during the Olympic Games of 2004.
www.sport.gov.gr /eyde03/LIH_en.htm   (406 words)

  
 Geografia d'Europa: material de suport
In Ano Liosia, Greece, municipal authorities have recently "resettled" the local Roma population of approximately 100 families.
Consequent violation of private and family life then call into question Article 8 of the ECHR, and the further discriminatory climate that came to be fostered raises compliance issues as regards both Articles 3 and 14 as well.
Greek Prime Minister Simitis received an NGO communication on the Ano Liosia problem May 23rd, 1997.
www.ub.es /medame/gyps-ref.html   (2729 words)

  
 Akratitos Stadium "Yannis Pathiakakis"
The stadium is located in Ano Liossia, a district about 12 km north of the centre of Athens.
Leave the motorway at exit #6 and head north through Filis Avenue to Ano Liossia.
Close this window, or (if you came here from another site) go to the main page of stadia.gr.
www.stadia.gr /akratitos/akratitos.html   (353 words)

  
 goGREECE.com - Daily News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
One of two young girls, around 10 years old, who was taken to hospital after being found in a swimming pool in Ano Liosia, died on Tuesday.
Doctors were able to keep the girl alive when she was brought to the hospital on Monday, but she was clinically dead and was unable to recover, doctors said.
The accident occurred when the two girls, together with a third little girl, were playing at a fountain near the house and then decided to continue playing in the swimming pool.
www.gogreece.com /News/Headlines/story.html?id=35502   (174 words)

  
 Bounce Back : March 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
METHOD : This school-based study of 1,937 students was conducted in two differentially exposed cities (Ano Liosia, at the epicenter, and Dafni, 10 kilometers from the epicenter) with an earthquake exposure questionnaire, the UCLA Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Reaction Index, and the Depression Self-Rating Scale.
Median PTSD Reaction Index scores were significantly higher in Ano Liosia.
The estimated rates of PTSD and clinical depression for both cities combined were 4.5% and 13.9%, respectively.
bounceback.typepad.com /bounce_back_mental_health/2005/03   (3333 words)

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