Kolokynthou

Kolokynthou is a neighborhood of , . In the past, in this area there were farms and gardens. The neighbourhood's name likely relates with the Greek word kolokythi that was ordinary in the gardens.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: neighborhood of Athens, Greece
  • Also known as: “Kolokinthou”, “Kolokinthoú”, and “Kolokythou”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Platonic Academy and Greek Public Tobacco Factory.

Archaeological site
Photo: Raphael, Public domain.
The Academy was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC.

Industrial building
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The at 218 Lenormann Street, in the area of Kolonos, was the second public tobacco factory in , Greece, built by the Greek state at the time when the cigarette manufacturing industry was booming, to house the tobacco processing and packaging companies as well as the tobacco traders' warehouses, with the main purpose of fully controlling tobacco taxation.

Railway station
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
railway station, often referred to as Central on onboard announcements, is the main railway station of and the second-largest station in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kolonos and Skouze Hill.

Quarter
Colonus or was a deme of the phyle Aegeis, of ancient Attica, celebrated as the deme of Sophocles, and the scene of one of the poet's tragedies, was situated ten stadia from the gate of the city, called Dipylum, near Plato's Academy and the river .

Neighborhood
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small hill located in the 4th Municipal Unit of the Municipality of , Greece. It is also the name of a small neighbourhood surrounding the hill.

Quarter
Photo: Tomisti, CC BY-SA 3.0.
literally meaning Plato's Academy, is a neighbourhood located 3 km west-northwest of the downtown part of the Greek capital of .

Kolokynthou

Latitude
37.99931° or 37° 59′ 58″ north
Longitude
23.71068° or 23° 42′ 38″ east
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GR KOL
Open location code
8G95XPX6+P7
Geo­Names ID
259490
Wiki­data ID
Q2336869
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Kolokynthou” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Kolokynthoú”
  • Dutch: “Kolokynthou”
  • Finnish: “Kolokynthoú”
  • French: “Kolokynthoú”
  • French: “Kolokythoú”
  • German: “Kolokynthou”
  • Greek: “Κολοκυθού”
  • Greek: “Κολοκυνθού”
  • Russian: “Колокинту”
  • Swedish: “Kolokynthoú”
  • Ukrainian: “Колокінту”
  • Ukrainian: “Колокіту”
  • Urdu: “کولوکینتھؤ”

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