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Attica
Athens Prefecture

Athens

Athens is the capital city of with a metropolitan population of 3.15 million inhabitants. It was a major cultural, political and religious centre of Classical Greece, and therefore remains for many an important site within the history of Western civilization.
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  • Type: City with 3,090,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Greece
  • Also known as: “Afini”, “Athenae”, “Athenai”, “Athénes”, “Athens city”, and “Athinia”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Parthenon and Areopagus.

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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, democracy, and Western civilization.

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The is a prominent rock located northwest of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Its English name is the Late Latin composite form of the Greek name Areios Pagos, translated "Hill of Ares".

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The or Temple of Athena Polias is an ancient Greek Ionic temple on the north side of the , Athens, which was primarily dedicated to the goddess Athena.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vyronas and Kallithea.

Suburb
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is a suburban town and a municipality in the southeastern part of the Athens agglomeration, . The town is named after George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, the famous poet and writer, who is a national hero of Greece.

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is a suburb in Athens agglomeration and a municipality in south Athens regional unit. It is the eighth largest municipality in Greece, as well as the fourth biggest in the Athens urban area.

Suburb
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Zografou is a suburban town of approximately 70,000 inhabitants in the eastern part of the Athens agglomeration, . It was named after the Greek politician Ioannis .

Athens

Latitude
37.9756° or 37° 58′ 32″ north
Longitude
23.7348° or 23° 44′ 5″ east
Population
3,090,000
Elevation
70 metres (230 feet)
IATA airport code
ATH
United Nations Location Code
GR ATH
Open location code
8G95XPGM+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 441183
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
264371
Wiki­data ID
Q1524
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Athens” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Athene”
  • Albanian: “Athina”
  • Albanian: “Athinë”
  • Amharic: “አቴና”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀθῆναι” (historical)
  • Angika: “एथेंस”
  • Arabic: “أثينا”
  • Aragonese: “Atenas”
  • Armenian: “Աթենք”
  • Arpitan: “Atèna”
  • Arpitan: “Atênes”
  • Assamese: “এথেন্স”
  • Asturian: “Atenes”
  • Awadhi: “एथेन्स”
  • Aymara: “Athina”
  • Azerbaijani: “Afina şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Afina”
  • Balinese: “Athéna”
  • Bambara: “Athens”
  • Bashkir: “Афина”
  • Basque: “Atenas”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Athena”
  • Bavarian: “Athen”
  • Belarusian: “Ateny”
  • Belarusian: “Атэны”
  • Belarusian: “Афіны”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাথেন্স”
  • Bengali: “এথেন্স”
  • Betawi: “Atène”
  • Bosnian: “Atena”
  • Bosnian: “Atina”
  • Breton: “Aten”
  • Bulgarian: “Атина”
  • Burmese: “အေသင်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Atenes”
  • Catalan: “Cetines”
  • Cebuano: “Atenas”
  • Central Bikol: “Atenas”
  • Central Kanuri: “Athens”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەتینا”
  • Chavacano: “Atenas”
  • Chechen: “Афина”
  • Chinese: “Athens”
  • Chinese: “雅典”
  • Church Slavic: “Аѳинꙑ”
  • Church Slavic: “Аѳины”
  • Chuvash: “Афин”
  • Chuvash: “Афинсем”
  • Cornish: “Athína”
  • Corsican: “Ateni, Grecia”
  • Corsican: “Ateni”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Atina”
  • Croatian: “Atena”
  • Czech: “Atény”
  • Czech: “Athény”
  • Dagbani: “Athens”
  • Danish: “Athen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Atêna”
  • Dotyali: “एथेन्स”
  • Dutch: “Athene (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Athene”
  • Eastern Mari: “Афин”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اتينا”
  • Erzya: “Афины ош”
  • Esperanto: “Ateno”
  • Esperanto: “Atenoj”
  • Estonian: “Ateena”
  • Extremaduran: “Atenas”
  • Faroese: “Athen”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Athens”
  • Finnish: “Ateena”
  • French: “Athenes”
  • French: “Athènes”
  • Friulian: “Aten”
  • Friulian: “Atene”
  • Fulah: “Athens”
  • Gagauz: “Afina”
  • Galician: “Atenas”
  • Gan Chinese: “雅典”
  • Georgian: “ათენი”
  • German: “Athen”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Athens”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰”
  • Greek: “Athínai”
  • Greek: “Αθηνα”
  • Greek: “Αθήνα”
  • Greek: “Αθηναι”
  • Greek: “Αθήναι” (historical)
  • Guarani: “Atena”
  • Guarani: “Aténa”
  • Gujarati: “એથેન્સ”
  • Haitian: “Atèn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Athens”
  • Hausa: “Athens”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Akenai”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻAkenai”
  • Hebrew: “אתונה”
  • Hindi: “ऍथेन्स”
  • Hindi: “एथेंस”
  • Hungarian: “Athén”
  • Iban: “Athens”
  • Icelandic: “Aþena”
  • Ido: “Athina”
  • Igbo: “Atens”
  • Iloko: “Atenas”
  • Indonesian: “Athena”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Athena”
  • Ingush: “Афины”
  • Interlingua: “Athenas”
  • Interlingue: “Athina”
  • Irish: “an Aithin”
  • Irish: “An Aithin”
  • Italian: “Atene”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Atenz”
  • Japanese: “アテネ”
  • Japanese: “エレソス”
  • Javanese: “Aténa”
  • Kabardian: “Афинхэр”
  • Kabiyè: “Atɛnɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Atena”
  • Kabyle: “Atina”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Athens”
  • Kalmyk: “Атен балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ಅಥೆನ್ಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Afina”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Афинле”
  • Kashmiri: “ایتھنز”
  • Kashubian: “Atenë”
  • Kazakh: “Афина”
  • Kazakh: “Афины”
  • Kirghiz: “Афины”
  • Komering: “Athena”
  • Komi: “Афинъяс”
  • Korean: “아테네 시”
  • Korean: “아테네”
  • Kotava: “Atina”
  • Kurdish: “Atîna”
  • Ladino: “Atena”
  • Ladino: “Atines”
  • Lao: “ເອເທນ”
  • Latin: “Athenae”
  • Latvian: “Atēnas”
  • Lezghian: “Афинар”
  • Lezghian: “Афинаяр”
  • Ligurian: “Aten”
  • Ligurian: “Atene”
  • Limburgan: “Athene”
  • Lingala: “Atenis”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Atina”
  • Literary Chinese: “雅典”
  • Lithuanian: “Atėnai”
  • Livvi: “Afiinat”
  • Lojban: “atenas”
  • Lombard: “Atene”
  • Low German: “Athen”
  • Low German: “Athene”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Atheny”
  • Luxembourgish: “Athen”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Athina”
  • Macedonian: “Атина”
  • Maithili: “एथेन्स”
  • Malagasy: “Atena”
  • Malagasy: “Athens”
  • Malay: “Athens”
  • Malayalam: “ഏതൻസ്‌”
  • Maltese: “Ateni”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯦꯊꯦꯟꯁ”
  • Manx: “Yn Atheen”
  • Maori: “Ātene”
  • Marathi: “ॲथेन्स”
  • Marathi: “अथेन्स”
  • Mazanderani: “آتن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ngà-diēng”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ngā-diēng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Athens”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Athina”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Athína”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ngá-tián”
  • Minangkabau: “Athena”
  • Mingrelian: “ათენი”
  • Mirandese: “Atenas”
  • Moksha: “Афитт”
  • Mongolian: “Афин”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أتينا”
  • Nauru: “Atens”
  • Navajo: “Tsékʼi Ííyah Daniiʼáii”
  • Neapolitan: “Atene”
  • Nepali: “एथेन्स”
  • Newari: “एथेन्स”
  • Northern Frisian: “Atheen”
  • Northern Luri: “آتن”
  • Northern Sami: “Athena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Athen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aten”
  • Norwegian: “Aten”
  • Norwegian: “Athen”
  • Novial: “Atena”
  • Nyanja: “Athens”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Atenas”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܬܝܢܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܬܢܘܣ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Athēnas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Aþēnas”
  • Oriya: “ଏଥେନ୍ସ”
  • Ossetian: “Афинæтæ”
  • Pampanga: “Atenas”
  • Pampanga: “Athens”
  • Panjabi: “ਐਥਨਜ਼”
  • Papiamento: “Atenas”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Athina”
  • Persian: “آتِن، آتَن، آتنِه”
  • Persian: “آتن”
  • Picard: “Atène”
  • Picard: “Atènes”
  • Piemontese: “Atene”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Athens”
  • Polish: “Ateny”
  • Pontic: “Αθήνα”
  • Portuguese: “Atenas”
  • Pushto: “آتن”
  • Pushto: “اتن”
  • Quechua: “Athina”
  • Romanian: “Atena”
  • Romansh: “Athen”
  • Russia Buriat: “Афина”
  • Russian: “Афины”
  • Rusyn: “Атены”
  • Sakizaya: “Ya-tyen”
  • Samoan: “Atenai”
  • Samogitian: “Atienā”
  • Saraiki: “ایتھنز”
  • Sardinian: “Atene”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Athene”
  • Scots: “Athens”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Àithne”
  • Serbian: “Atina”
  • Serbian: “Атина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Atena”
  • Shona: “Athens”
  • Sicilian: “Ateni”
  • Silesian: “Atyny”
  • Sindhi: “اٿينس”
  • Sinhala: “ඇතන්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Atény”
  • Slovenian: “Atene”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آتن”
  • Spanish: “Atenas”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵜⵉⵏⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Athens”
  • Swedish: “Aten”
  • Swedish: “Athen”
  • Swiss German: “Athen”
  • Tachelhit: “Atina”
  • Tagalog: “Atenas”
  • Tagalog: “Athína”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Athína”
  • Tajik: “Афина”
  • Talysh: “Afina”
  • Tamil: “அதென்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “ஏதென்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Афин”
  • Tatar: “Афина”
  • Tatar: “Афиннар”
  • Telugu: “ఏథెన్స్”
  • Thai: “เอเธนส์”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཐེན།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Aten”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Athen”
  • Turkish: “Atina”
  • Turkmen: “Afiny”
  • Turkmen: “Atina”
  • Twi: “Atɛns”
  • Twi: “Athens”
  • Udmurt: “Афины”
  • Uighur: “ئافېنا”
  • Ukrainian: “Атени”
  • Ukrainian: “Афіни”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Athen”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Atheny”
  • Urdu: “اتھینا”
  • Urdu: “اتھینہ”
  • Urdu: “اثینا”
  • Urdu: “اثینہ”
  • Urdu: “ایتھنز”
  • Uzbek: “Afina”
  • Venetian: “Atene”
  • Veps: “Afinad”
  • Vietnamese: “Athena”
  • Vietnamese: “Athenae”
  • Vietnamese: “Athens”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhã Điển”
  • Vlaams: “Athene”
  • Vlax Romani: “Athens”
  • Volapük: “Aten”
  • Volapük: “Atina”
  • Võro: “Ateena”
  • Walloon: “Atene”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Atenas”
  • Welsh: “Athen”
  • Western Armenian: “Աթէնք”
  • Western Frisian: “Atene”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایتھنز”
  • Wolof: “Aten”
  • Wu Chinese: “雅典”
  • Yakut: “Атина”
  • Yiddish: “אטען”
  • Yoruba: “Áténì”
  • Yue Chinese: “雅典”
  • Zeeuws: “Athene”
  • Zulu: “I-Athene”
  • “Ateena”
  • “Atēna”
  • “Atene”
  • “Athens”
  • “Athine”
  • “Atienā”
  • “ma Asina”
  • “ma Atena”
  • “ma tomo Asina”
  • “ma tomo Atena”
  • “Αθήνα”
  • “Ἀθῆναι”

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