Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of . A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland.
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  • Type: Locality with 664,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Greece in Attica, part of Central Athens district
  • Also known as: “Athens Municipality”, “Dimos Athinon”, and “Municipality of Athens”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parthenon and Platonic Academy.

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The is a former temple on the , Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of classical Greek art, and the is considered an enduring symbol of ancient Greece, Western civilisation, and democracy.

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.

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The was a principal council of ancient Athens, later serving mainly as a judicial body responsible for cases of homicide, wounding, and certain religious offenses.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Palaio Faliro.

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is the capital city of with a metropolitan population of 3.6 million inhabitants based on ELSTAT Census but with undocumented population it reaches 5.2 million.

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is a municipality in on the Saronic Gulf coast. It is part of the South Suburbs of .

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The is the ancient port of , and still functions as the chief exit point from the city by sea, for destinations among the Aegean Islands and elsewhere in the east Mediterranean.

Athens

Latitude
37.9889° or 37° 59′ 20″ north
Longitude
23.736° or 23° 44′ 10″ east
Population
664,000
Elevation
107 metres (351 feet)
Open location code
8G95XPQP+HC
Geo­Names ID
8133876
Wiki­data ID
Q1224979
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Athens” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلدية أثينا”
  • Armenian: “Աթենքի մունիցիպալիտետ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Afina bələdiyyəsi”
  • Bashkir: “Афина муниципалитеты”
  • Basque: “Atenas udalerria”
  • Belarusian: “Афіны”
  • Bulgarian: “Атина”
  • Bulgarian: “дем Атина”
  • Catalan: “Atenes”
  • Cebuano: “Dimos Athens”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Belediyay Atêna”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Dimos Atena”
  • Dutch: “Athene (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Athene”
  • Esperanto: “Municipo Ateno”
  • Finnish: “Ateenan kunta”
  • French: “dème des Athéniens”
  • French: “Dème des Athéniens”
  • Galician: “concello de Atenas”
  • German: “Gemeinde Athen”
  • Greek: “Αθήνα”
  • Greek: “Αθήναι”
  • Greek: “Αθηναίων”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Αθηναίων”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Αθηνών”
  • Greek: “Δήμος της Αθήνας”
  • Hebrew: “עיריית אתונה”
  • Hungarian: “Athén község”
  • Ido: “Municipo Atina”
  • Italian: “Atene”
  • Italian: “comune di Atene”
  • Japanese: “アテネ自治体”
  • Latin: “Athenae demus”
  • Latin: “Athenae”
  • Malay: “Perbandaran Athens”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Athen kommune”
  • Norwegian: “Athen”
  • Polish: “Ateny gmina”
  • Polish: “Ateny”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Atenas”
  • Romanian: “comuna Atena”
  • Russian: “Афины”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Atene”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Atenas”
  • Swedish: “Atens kommun”
  • Swedish: “Dimos Athens”
  • Tatar: “Афин муниципалитеты”
  • Turkish: “Atina belediyesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Муніципалітет Афін”
  • Ukrainian: “Муніципалітет Афіни”
  • Urdu: “بلدیہ ایتھنز”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Athens”
  • Western Armenian: “Աթէնք”
  • Western Armenian: “Աթէնքի քաղաքապետութիւն”

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