Thymarakia

Thymarakia is a neighborhood of the center of . It takes its name from the Greek word 'θυμάρι' which means 'thyme', which was formerly plentiful in the area. The area is served by on line 1 of the Athens Metro.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Platonic Academy and Agios Nikolaos.

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.

Metro station
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, also known as Aghios Nikolaos on signage, is on Athens Metro Line 1. It was opened by the Hellenic Electric Railways on 12 February 1956, and is 13.164 kilometres along the line from .

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 Nikolaos, Athens and Sepolia.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Quarter
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is a in , Greece. The is situated in the neighborhood. owes to its name in the Greek phrase esopolis, which means "inside the city".

Neighborhood
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is a small hill located in the 4th Municipal Unit of the Municipality of , Greece. It is also the name of a small neighbourhood surrounding the hill.

Thymarakia

Latitude
38.00426° or 38° 0′ 15″ north
Longitude
23.7238° or 23° 43′ 26″ east
Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)
Open location code
8GC52P3F+PG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11806027625
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
9036398
Wiki­data ID
Q22812304
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Urdu—“Thymarakia” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Thymarakia”
  • Finnish: “Thymarákia”
  • French: “Thymarákia”
  • German: “Thymarakia”
  • Greek: “Θυμαράκια”
  • Urdu: “تھیماراکیا”

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