Kolokynthou
Kolokynthou is a neighborhood of Athens, Greece. 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.- 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.
Platonic Academy
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.
Greek Public Tobacco Factory
Industrial building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Greek Public Tobacco Factory at 218 Lenormann Street, in the area of Kolonos, was the second public tobacco factory in Athens, Greece, built by the Greek State at the time when the cigarette manufacturing industry was booming, in order to house the tobacco processing and packaging companies as well as the tobacco traders' warehouses, with the main purpose of fully controlling tobacco taxation.
Athens railway station
Railway station
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Athens railway station is the main railway station of Athens and the second-largest station in Greece. Located in the central quarter of Kolonos, the railway station resulted from the merger of two separate railway terminals in 2005—Larissa station of the…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kolonos and Skouze Hill.
Kolonos
Quarter
Colonus or Kolonos 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 Cephissus.
Skouze Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Skouze Hill is a hill located in Athens, Greece. It is also the name of a small neighbourhood surrounding the hill. In Antiquity, it was dedicated to and named after "Demeter Euchloös".
Akadimia Platonos
Quarter
Photo: Tomisti, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Akadimia Platonos literally meaning Plato's Academy, is a neighbourhood located 3 km west-northwest of the downtown part of the Greek capital of Athens.
Kolokynthou
- Category: neighborhood
- Location: Athens, Athens Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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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”
- Greek: “Κολοκυθού”
- Greek: “Κολοκυνθού”
- Russian: “Колокинту”
- Swedish: “Kolokynthoú”
- Ukrainian: “Колокінту”
- Ukrainian: “Колокіту”
- Urdu: “کولوکینتھؤ”
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