Dafni–Ymittos (Greek: Δάφνη-Υμηττός) is a municipality in the Central Athens regional unit, Attica, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Dafni. The municipality Dafni–Ymittos was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units:
• Dafni
• Ymittos
Dafni, sometimes called Daphne, is a suburb of Athens, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Dafni-Ymittos, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It has an Athens Metro station (red line), while Vouliagmenis Avenue runs through it. It is the smallest municipality in Athens covering about 1 km². The city hall is in the south, 200 m from the municipal boundary. The municipality is divided in two, with one part covering 85-90% of the total area, and the second part covering 10-15% of the total municipal area, or about 0.5 km². It sits on a hill and almost the entire land is used for residential purposes; there are no industrial factories in that part of suburban Athens. A hill is located to the north near the Athens municipal boundary. The main street is Boumpoulinas Avenue. The Amyntas Dafnis HEBA basketball club (A2 Division) competes at the Dafni Indoor Hall; the team has, at times, featured former NBA players.
Ymittos (Greek: Υμηττός), is a suburb of Athens, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Dafni-Ymittos, of which it is a municipal unit.
Ymittos Street, which is connected with Vouliagmenis Ave. and Olof Palme St in Zografou, runs through it. NE is the large campus of the University of Athens and Kaisariani. With a land area of 0.975 km², it is the second-smallest municipality in Greece (after Nea Chalkidona). Until the 1920s, the area was partially forested and was an agricultural area, until suburban houses came in the early to mid 20th century. Now much of the area is urban. A couple of movies throughout the mid-20th century were filmed here.
Ymittos has schools, lyceums, gymnasia, banks, post offices and squares. In particular there are three lyceums, 3 secondary schools and 5 primary.
Worth visiting sight seeings
Dafni Indoor Hall (also known as Michalis Mouroutsos Indoor Hall) is an indoor basketball sporting arena that is located in the district of Dafni, Attica, which is about 3 km from the downtown center of the city of Athens, Greece. It is currently home to the Amyntas Dafnis Greek professional basketball team. The arena was built in 1992, and has a seating capacity of 1,200 people. The hall is owned by the municipality of Dafni, Attica. It is named after Michalis Mouroutsos, a Tae-Kwon-Do athlete from Dafni, who won the gold medal in the 2000 Olympic Tae-Kwon-Do Tournament at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics.
More data: The hall is named after Michalis Mouroutsos, a tae-kwon-do athlete from Dafni who won the gold medal in the Sydney 2000 Olympics. It is a very small indoor hall with a rather strange layout of its stands. It used to be the home of Dafni B.C. The club competed regularly in the A1 & A2 divisions, but ceased to exist in 2010, when it merged with Amyntas Imittos B.C. The hall is owned by the Municipality of Dafni-Imittos.
Michael (Michalis) Mouroutsos (born February 29, 1980 in Athens, Greece) is an Olympic taekwondo gold medalist from Greece. He became the inaugural Olympic champion in the men’s -58 kg division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Michail Mouroutsos
Medal record
Competitor for Greece
Men’s taekwondo
Olympic Games
Gold 2000 Sydney
58 kg
European Championships
Gold 2000 Patras
Flyweight
Amyntas Dafnis B.C.- Athlitikos Omilos Amyntas- Dafnis – Ymittos
Leagues Greek A2 League
Greek Cup
Founded 1967
History 1967 – 2010
Dafni B.C.
2010 – Present
Amyntas Dafnis B.C.
Arena Dafni Indoor Hall
(capacity: 1,200)
Location Dafni, Attica, Athens, Greece
Team colors Blue and Orange
Head coach Vangelis Vlahos
Championships A2 Championships: (1)
(1999)
Website amyntas.gr
Amyntas Dafnis B.C. is a Greek professional basketball club. The club’s full name is Athlitikos Omilos Amyntas Dafnis – Ymittos B.C. The club is located in Dafni, Attica, a suburb of the city of Athens, Greece. The colors of the team are blue and orange, and the team’s symbol is the laurel branch.
History
The athletic organization’s parent athletic union, the A.O. A.C. Dafni, was founded in 1939, when the sports club started with a football club. In 1967, the athletic union added the basketball club, A.O. Dafni B.C., as one of its sports sections.
In 1969, the team competed in the Greek A1 League for the first time, and stayed in the A1 until 1975. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the club often competed in the A1. Legendary Euroleague player Theo Papaloukas played with the club from 1997 to 1999. In the 1998-99 season, Papaloukas led Dafni B.C. to the Greek A2 League divisional championship. In 2010, Dafni and A.O. Amyntas merged, creating A.O. Amyntas Dafnis. This season, the team competes in the Greek B League, south division.
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