Azolimnos Syros
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37°24′37″N 24°57′50″E / 37.41028°N 24.96389°E
Azolimnos Syros is a village on the southeast coast of the Greek island of Syros. Syros belongs to the Cyclades island group. Azolimnos is 6 km from the Syros capital, Ermoupoli. Azolimnos beach is a popular destination for summer holiday makers wishing to go swimming.
See History of Syros
A 1905 sessional paper of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, mentions the Société Anonyme Hellènique de poudres et produits chimiques of Athens having purchased and updated a gun powder and explosives plant at Azolimnos. It sourced raw materials from Genoa and Hamburg. The factory was able to produce one ton of powder per day. The 1907 volume of Kelly's Directory also lists the company but by 1920, the factory is noted to have not been in production for some time.[1][2][3]
Geography
The village rests on schist, a scaly textured metamorphic rock.[4]