Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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.
Parthenon
Photo: Elena Tatiana Chis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Parthenon is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of classical Greek art, and the Parthenon is considered an enduring symbol of ancient Greece, Western civilization, and democracy.
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.
Areopagus
Peak
Photo: ajbear, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Areopagus 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.
Athens
Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Athens is the capital city of Greece with a metropolitan population of 3.15 million inhabitants. It was a major cultural, political and religious centre of Classical Greece, a place that deeply influenced the course of Western civilization.
Palaio Faliro
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Palaio Faliro is a municipality in Attica on the Saronic Gulf coast. It is part of the South Suburbs of Athens.
Piraeus
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The Piraeus is the ancient port of Athens, 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
- Category: municipality of Greece
- Location: Athens Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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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”
- 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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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Exarcheia Square and Lofos Strefi.
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