Athens (/ˈæθᵻnz/;[2]Greek:Αθήνα,Athína,[aˈθina];Ancient Greek:Ἀθῆναι,Athēnai) is thecaipital an lairgest ceity oGreece. Athens dominates theAttica region an is ane o thewarld's auldest ceities, wi itsrecordit history spannin aroond 3,400 year.Classical Athens, as a landlockit location wis a pouerfulceity-state that emergit in conjunction wi the seagoin development o the port oPiraeus. A centre for the airts, learnin anfilosofie, hame oPlato'sAcademy anAristotle'sLyceum,[3][4] it is widely referred tae as thecradle o Wastren ceevilization an the birthplace odemocracy,[5][6] lairgely due tae the impact o its cultural an poleetical achievements durin the 5t an 4t centuries BC in later centuries on the rest o the then kentEuropean continent.[7] The day a cosmopolitan metropolis, modren Athens is central tae economic, feenancial, industrial, poleetical an cultural life in Greece. In 2008, Athens wis rankit the warld's32nt richest ceity bi purchasin pouer[8] an the 25t maist expensive[9] in aUBS study. The ceity is namit in honour oAthena.
Lang syne, Athens wis a feckfu ceity. It wis kent for the feck o learnin that happened thare, an wis hame taePlato's Academy anAristotle'sLyceum. It haed its ainConstitution an aw.
Athens became thecaipital o Greece in 1834, follaeinNafplio, which wis the proveesional caipital frae 1829. In addeetion, the municipality o Athens is the caipital o the Attica region.Athens can refer aither tae the municipality o Athens or tae the entire AthensUrban area, which maks up the "Ceity o Athens" that sprawls athort theAttica Basin.
TheAthens Metropolitan Area, sprawlin ower2,928.717km2 (1,131sqmi), is locatit athin the3,808km2 (1,470sqmi)Attica region. The region encompasses the maist populatit region o Greece, reachin 3,827,624 indwallers in 2011,[1] while it is housomeivver, ane o the smawest regions in the kintra.
The Attica region itsel is split intae aichtregional units, oot o which the first fower formGreater Athens, while theregional unit o Piraeus formsGreater Piraeus. Thegither thay mak up the contiguous biggit upurban area o the Greek caipital, spanning ower412km2 (159sqmi).[10]
Till 2010, the first fower regional units abuin made up the abolishtAthens Prefectur (wha is referred tae asGreater Athens) an aw, which wis the maist populous o thePrefecturs o Greece at the time, accoontin for 2,640,701 fowk (in 2011),[1] athin a area o361km2 (139sqmi).[11]
Themunicipality o Athens is themaist populous in Greece, wi a population o 664,046 fowk (in 2011)[1] an a area o39km2 (15sqmi),[11] formin the core o the Athens Urban Area athin theAttica Basin. The currentmayor o Athens isGiorgos Kaminis. The municipality is dividit intae seiven municipal destricts which are mainly uised for admeenistrative purposes.
Population data for the 7 municipal destricts o Athens (2001 census):[12]
The Athens municipality forms the core an centre oGreater Athens an aw which consists o the Athens municipality an 34 mair municipalities, which are dividit in the fower regional units mentioned abuin.
The municipalities o Greater Athens alang wi the municipalities athin GreaterPiraeus (regional unit o Piraeus) form the Athens Urban Area, while the lairger metropolitan area includes several addeetional suburbs an touns surroondin the denseurban area o the Greek caipital.
↑"Athens". Retrieved31 December 2008.Ancient Greek Athenai, historic city and capital of Greece. Many of classical civilization’s intellectual and artistic ideas originated there, and the city is generally considered to be the birthplace of Western civilization
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