Agios Ioannis Rentis

Agios Ioannis Rentis is a suburb and a former municipality in the western part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. Since the 2011 nearby authorities reform it's far a part of the municipality Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Rentis, of which it's miles a municipal unit. Agios Ioannis Rentis is a Piraeus suburb, placed approximately 5 km or 3 mi west of central Athens and 3 km or 2 mi northeast of Piraeus. The municipal unit has an area of 4.524 km2. The small river Cephissus runs through it. Two critical delivery axes skip through the municipality: Motorway 1 Athens- Thessaloniki and the Piraeus–Platy railway, on which it has a passenger station Rentis and a huge marshalling yard.

The Olympiakos FC schooling middle is on this vicinity. There is likewise the Olympiacos Volleyball stadium that stands nearby. He metropolis skilled decline accompanied by using restoration within the second half of the Middle Byzantine Period, within the ninth to tenth centuries CE, and become an quite prosperous throughout the Crusades, cashing in on Italian change. After the Fourth Crusade the Duchy of Athens turned into mounted. In 1458 it changed into conquered by the Ottoman Empire and entered a long duration of decline.