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Akadimia Platonos

Akadimia Platonos literally meaning Plato's Academy, is a neighbourhood located 3 km west-northwest of the downtown part of the Greek capital of .
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  • Type: Quarter
  • Description: neighborhood of Athens, Greece
  • Also known as: “Akademia Platonos”

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
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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…

Museum
Photo: Marsyas, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The is located in , , and was built in 1937. It houses many important early Geometric art pieces that date as far back as 860 BC.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kolonos and Profitis Daniil.

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 .

Neighborhood
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meaning 'Prophet Daniel' is a neighborhood of , . It takes its name from the main church on Athinon Avenue.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Akadimia Platonos

Latitude
37.99192° or 37° 59′ 31″ north
Longitude
23.70977° or 23° 42′ 35″ east
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
Open location code
8G95XPR5+QW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 651910976
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
8740124
Wiki­data ID
Q415066
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Uzbek—“Akadimia Platonos” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Akadimia Platonos”
  • Finnish: “Akademia Platonos”
  • Finnish: “Akadimia Platonos”
  • Finnish: “Akadimía Plátonos”
  • French: “Académie de Platon”
  • French: “Akadimia Platonos”
  • French: “Akadimía Plátonos”
  • French: “Akadimia”
  • German: “Akadimia Platonos”
  • Greek: “Ακαδημία Πλάτωνα (Αθήνα)”
  • Greek: “Ακαδημία Πλάτωνος (Αθήνα)”
  • Greek: “Ακαδημία Πλάτωνος”
  • Italian: “Akadimia Platonos”
  • Persian: “آکادمی افلاطون (محله)”
  • Persian: “آکادمی افلاطون”
  • Russian: “Академия Платона (район Афин)”
  • Russian: “Академия Платона”
  • Ukrainian: “Академія Платона (район Афін)”
  • Ukrainian: “Академія Платона”
  • Urdu: “اکادیمیہ پلاتونوس”
  • Uzbek: “Aflotun Akademiyasi”

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