Attiki

Attiki is a neighbourhood of , located northwest of the city centre. The neighbourhood and its central square are named after Attica Railways, a railway company that constructed the line Athens-Kifissia-Lavrion.
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  • Type: Neighborhood
  • Description: neighborhood of Athens, Greece
  • Also known as: “Attiki, Athens” and “Plateia Attikis”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Athens and Platonic Academy.

Railway station
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railway station, often referred to as Central on onboard announcements, is the main railway station of and the second-largest station in .

Archaeological site
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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.

Metro station
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is a metro station in Athens, Greece. The station opened in 1885. It was the main hub of Attica Railways, a metre gauge network connecting downtown Athens with the mining town of Lavrion and the northern suburbs of Marousi and Kifissia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Agios Panteleimonas and Stathmos Larisis.

Neighborhood
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or Aghios Panteleimonas is a neighbourhood of , located northwest of the centre of Athens between and Attikis Square.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

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 .

Attiki

Latitude
37.99608° or 37° 59′ 46″ north
Longitude
23.72242° or 23° 43′ 21″ east
Elevation
81 metres (266 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GR ATT
Open location code
8G95XPWC+CX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2850425852
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
264354
Wiki­data ID
Q4818367
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Uzbek—“Attiki” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Attiki, Athens”
  • Finnish: “Attikí”
  • French: “Attikí”
  • French: “Attique”
  • German: “Attiki (Athen)”
  • German: “Attiki”
  • Greek: “Αττική”
  • Greek: “Πλατεία Αττικής”
  • Russian: “Аттика”
  • Urdu: “آتیکی، ایتھنز”
  • Uzbek: “Attiki, Afina”
  • Uzbek: “Attiki”

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