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Athens

Athens is a city of 27,000 people in northern , USA about 15 miles south of the border and 20 miles west of . It is the county seat of Limestone county.
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  • Type: Town with 25,400 residents
  • Description: county seat of Limestone County, Alabama, United States
  • Also known as: “Athens, AL”, “Athens, Alabama”, and “Athenson”
  • Postal codes: 35611-35614
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Athens Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District and Robert Beaty Historic District.

Heritage site
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
The is a historic district in Athens, Alabama. Athens was founded in 1818 when Robert Beaty and John D.

Heritage site
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The is a historic district in Athens, Alabama. Robert Beaty was one of the original founders of Athens. An Irish immigrant who settled in , Beaty and his associates purchased 160 acres around a spring, and began subdividing the land for sale in 1818.

Public building
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The Old Main Post Office in Athens, Alabama, also known as Washington Street Courthouse Annex, was built in 1933. Located one block from the , the Neoclassical Revival building was constructed by the Works Progress Administration.

Athens

Latitude
34.8045° or 34° 48′ 16″ north
Longitude
-86.9712° or 86° 58′ 16″ west
Population
25,400
Elevation
722 feet (220 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US ATA
Open location code
866MR23H+RG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153510620
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4830668
Wiki­data ID
Q79439
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Athens” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “آثنز (ألاباما)”
  • Arabic: “آثنز (لاباما)”
  • Arabic: “آثنز، ألاباما”
  • Arabic: “آثنز”
  • Asturian: “Athens”
  • Azerbaijani: “Atens”
  • Basque: “Athens”
  • Catalan: “Athens”
  • Cebuano: “Athens”
  • Chechen: “Атенс”
  • Chinese: “Athens”
  • Chinese: “阿森斯”
  • Czech: “Athens”
  • Dagbani: “Athens”
  • Danish: “Athens, Alabama”
  • Danish: “Athens”
  • Dutch: “Athens”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “آثنز”
  • Faroese: “Athens”
  • French: “Athens”
  • German: “Athens”
  • Gilaki: “آتنز”
  • Greek: “Άθενς”
  • Greek: “Αθήνα, Αλαμπάμα”
  • Haitian: “Athens”
  • Hausa: “Athens”
  • Hebrew: “את’נס”
  • Hungarian: “Athens”
  • Icelandic: “Athens”
  • Ido: “Athens, Alabama”
  • Ido: “Athens”
  • Irish: “Athens”
  • Italian: “Athens”
  • Japanese: “アセンズ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Athens”
  • Korean: “애선스”
  • Ladin: “Athens”
  • Malagasy: “Athens, Alabama”
  • Malagasy: “Athens”
  • Mazanderani: “آتن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Athens”
  • Newari: “एथेन्स, अलाबामा”
  • Newari: “एथेन्स”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Athens”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Athens”
  • Norwegian: “Athens”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Athens”
  • Persian: “آتن، آلاباما”
  • Persian: “آتن”
  • Persian: “اتن”
  • Polish: “Athens”
  • Portuguese: “Athens”
  • Russian: “Атенс”
  • Russian: “Афины”
  • Serbian: “Athens”
  • Serbian: “Атенс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Athens, Alabama”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Athens”
  • Slovak: “Athens”
  • Slovenian: “Athens”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آتن، آلاباما”
  • Spanish: “Athens (Alabama)”
  • Spanish: “Athens”
  • Swedish: “Athens, Alabama”
  • Swedish: “Athens”
  • Talysh: “Atens”
  • Tatar: “Эйтенз (Алабама)”
  • Tatar: “Эйтенз”
  • Turkish: “Athens, Alabama”
  • Turkish: “Athens”
  • Ukrainian: “Афіни”
  • Ukrainian: “Ейтенз”
  • Urdu: “ایتھنز، الاباما”
  • Urdu: “ایتھنز”
  • Uzbek: “Athens”
  • Vietnamese: “Athens, Alabama”
  • Vietnamese: “Athens”
  • Volapük: “Athens”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Athens, Alabama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Athens”
  • Welsh: “Athens, Alabama”
  • Welsh: “Athens”

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