Attica
Athens Prefecture
Athens

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 Platonic Academy and Athens railway station.

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.

Railway station
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the main railway station of and the second-largest station in . 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…

Metro station
Photo: Badseed, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Peloponnisios, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Aghios Panteleimonas is a neighbourhood of , located northwest of the centre of Athens between Viktorias Square and Attikis Square.

Neighborhood
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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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In Other Languages

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

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Attiki”. Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.