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4 days ago · Athens lies 5 miles (8 km) from the Bay of Phaleron, an inlet of the Aegean (Aigaíon) Sea where Piraeus (Piraiévs), the port of Athens, is situated, in a mountain-girt arid basin divided north-south by a line of hills. Greater Athens has an area of 165 square miles (427 square km).
Education. Culture. See also. References. External links. Athens. Coordinates: 37°59′03″N 23°43′41″E. Athens ( / ˈæθɪnz / ATH-inz) [6] [7] is the capital and largest city of Greece. A major coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland.
Jul 6, 2021 · The myth was also used, later, to justify the second-class status of Athenian women since it was the women of Athens who chose Athena’s gift over Poseidon’s and, so this justification goes, to turn away Poseidon’s wrath from the city, women’s names were not recorded on birth records as mothers (the woman’s father’s name was given) and women were denied a political voice and civic ...
- Joshua J. Mark
Location. Geography. Mount Lycabettus rising in central Athens. The Choragic Monument of Lysicrates (lower left), the Arch of Hadrian (center) and the Olympeion (upper right) as seen from the southeastern slopes of the Acropolis of Athens.
Athens is the historical capital of Europe, with a long history, dating from the first settlement in the Neolithic age. ... located close to the Parthenon. Moreover ...
Athens, Greek Athínai, City (pop., 2001: 745,514), capital of Greece. It is located inland near its port, Piraeus, on the Saronic Gulf in eastern Greece. The source of many of the West’s intellectual and artistic conceptions, including that of democracy, Athens is generally considered the birthplace of Western civilization.
Athens ( / ˈæθɪnz / ATH-inz) is the capital and largest city of Greece. A major coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over three million, it is the eighth largest urban area in the European Union.
