Fyli

The municipality Fyli was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

• Ano Liosia
• Fyli
• Zefyri

The municipality has an area of 109.128 km², the municipal unit 69.281 km².{{cite web |url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-21 }}

A group of Athenian exiles, led by Thrasybulus, seized Phyle in the 404 BC Battle of Phyle. They went on to defeat the Spartan garrison at the Battle of Munichia near Piraeus.

The medieval name Chasia is first attested in 1209 as {{lang|it|casale Cassas}}, as property of the Latin Archbishopric of Athens.{{Tabula Imperii Byzantini|volume=1|page=139}} The town is mentioned as Haşa in the Seyahatnâme of Evliya Çelebi which he visited in 1668.{{Citation |last=Yerasimos |first=Marianna |title=Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi’nde Yunanistan: Rota ve Güzergâhlar |date=2020-05-27 |url=http://books.openedition.org/ifeagd/1963 |work=Bir allame-i cihan : Stefanos Yerasimos (1942-2005) |pages=735–835 |editor-last=Anadol |editor-first=Çağatay |access-date=2023-02-06 |series=IFEA/Kitap yayınevi |place=İstanbul |publisher=Institut français d’études anatoliennes |isbn=978-2-36245-044-0 |editor2-last=Eldem |editor2-first=Edhem |editor3-last=Pekin |editor3-first=Ersu |editor4-last=Tibet |editor4-first=Aksel}} He mentions that it is and Arvanite village with 100 houses and that 50 houses of the village are tax-exempt because they are tasked to protect the mountain pass.{{Cite book |last=Evliya |first=Çelebi |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1017937898 |title=Günümüz Türkçesiyle Evliyâ Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi 8. Kitap |publisher=Yapı Kredi Yayınları |others=Yücel Dağlı |year=2011 |isbn=978-975-08-0562-2 |editor-last=Kahraman |editor-first=Seyit Ali |edition=6. |location=İstanbul |page=270 |language=tr |oclc=1017937898 |quote=Haşa Köyü: Atina kazası voyvodalığıdır ki 100 haneli Arnavut keferesi köyüdür. 50 hanenin tüm reayası geçit yolunu beklemek için muaflardır. Bu köyü geçip deniz kenarınca sarp taşlık, çamlık, korkulu ve tehlikeli kafir firkateleri yatağı ve melunlar durağı olan yerleri 5 saatte geçip,}}

The village has historically been an Arvanite settlement.{{cite journal |last1=Pantelidis |first1=Nikos |last2=Liosis |first2=Nikos |title=Dialectical Modern Greek Influences on Arvanitika |journal=Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistics Theory |date=2019|url=https://www.academia.edu/38747601|page=224 |publisher=National and Kapodistrian University of Athens}}

Fyli suffered some damage from the 2007 and the 2023 forest fires.

Fyli is situated in the southern foothills of the mountains of Parnitha, and northeast of the plain of Eleusis. It is 4 km northeast of Ano Liosia, 8 km northeast of Aspropyrgos and 14 km northwest of Athens city centre. The A6 motorway passes south of the town.

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{{Geographic location

|Centre = Fyli

|North = Avlonas

|Northeast = Acharnes

|East = Ano Liosia

|Southeast = Ano Liosia

|South =

|Southwest = Aspropyrgos

|West = Aspropyrgos

|Northwest = Dervenochoria

}}

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Category:Municipalities of Attica

Category:Populated places in West Attica

Category:Arvanite settlements