Athens: Caipital an lairgest ceety o Greece

Athens dominates the Attica region an is ane o the warld's auldest ceities, wi its recordit history spannin aroond 3,400 year. Classical Athens, as a landlockit location wis a pouerful ceity-state that emergit in conjunction wi the seagoin development o the port o Piraeus. A centre for the airts, learnin an filosofie, hame o Plato's Academy an Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred tae as the cradle o Wastren ceevilization an the birthplace o democracy, 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 kent European continent. 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's 32nt richest ceity bi purchasin pouer an the 25t maist expensive in a UBS study. The ceity is namit in honour o Athena.

Athens Αθήνα Athīna
Frae upper left: the Acropolis, the Hellenic Parliament, the Zappeion, the Acropolis Museum, Monastiraki Square, Athens view towards the sea.
Athens Location within the region
Coordinates: 37°58′N 23°43′E / 37.967°N 23.717°E / 37.967; 23.717 23°43′E / 37.967°N 23.717°E / 37.967; 23.717
Kintra	Greece
Admeenistrative region	Attica
Regional unit	Central Athens
Destricts	7
Govrenment
• Mayor	Giorgos Kaminis (Independent; syne 29 December 2010)
Area
• Urban	412 km2 (159 sq mi)
• Metro	2928.717 km2 (1,130.784 sq mi)
• Municipality	38.964 km2 (15.044 sq mi)
Highest elevation	338 m (1,109 ft)
Lowest elevation	70 m (230 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Urban	3,074,160
• Urban density	7,500/km2 (19,000/sq mi)
• Metro	3,737,550
• Metro density	1,300/km2 (3,300/sq mi)
• Municipality	655780
• Municipality density	17,000/km2 (44,000/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Athenian
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	10x xx, 11x xx, 120 xx
Aurie code(s)	21
Vehicle registration	Yxx, Zxx, Ixx (excluding ZAx and INx)
Website	www.cityofathens.gr

Lang syne, Athens wis a feckfu ceity. It wis kent for the feck o learnin that happened thare, an wis hame tae Plato's Academy an Aristotle's Lyceum. It haed its ain Constitution an aw.

The Ottoman Turks teuk ower Athens in 1458. The Turks made the Parthenon intae a Muslim mosque. The Parthenon wis later skaithed in 1687 whan gunpouder explodit ben the biggin.

Athens wis freed fae the Turks durin the Greek war o unthirldom (1821-33). It syne becam the caipital o Greece.

 

Athens became the caipital o Greece in 1834, follaein Nafplio, 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 Athens Urban area, which maks up the "Ceity o Athens" that sprawls athort the Attica Basin.

Attica Region

The Athens Metropolitan Area, sprawlin ower 2,928.717 km² (1,131 sq mi), is locatit athin the 3,808 km² (1,470 sq mi) Attica region. The region encompasses the maist populatit region o Greece, reachin 3,827,624 indwallers in 2011, while it is housomeivver, ane o the smawest regions in the kintra.

The Attica region itsel is split intae aicht regional units, oot o which the first fower form Greater Athens, while the regional unit o Piraeus forms Greater Piraeus. Thegither thay mak up the contiguous biggit up urban area o the Greek caipital, spanning ower 412 km² (159 sq mi).

• North Athens (Urban area)
• Wast Athens (Urban area)
• Central Athens (Urban area)
• Sooth Athens (Urban area)
• Piraeus (Urban area)
• East Attica (Metropolitan area)
• Wast Attica (Metropolitan area)
• Islands

Till 2010, the first fower regional units abuin made up the abolisht Athens Prefectur (wha is referred tae as Greater Athens) an aw, which wis the maist populous o the Prefecturs o Greece at the time, accoontin for 2,640,701 fowk (in 2011), athin a area o 361 km² (139 sq mi).

Athens Municipality

 

The municipality o Athens is the maist populous in Greece, wi a population o 664,046 fowk (in 2011) an a area o 39 km² (15 sq mi), formin the core o the Athens Urban Area athin the Attica Basin. The current mayor o Athens is Giorgos 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):

1st: 97,570 2nt: 110,069 3rd: 48,305 4t: 87,672 5t: 95,234 6t: 147,181 7t: 159,483

For Athenians the maist popular wey o dividin the ceity proper is throu its neebourheids sic as Pagkrati, Ambelokipi, Exarcheia, Patissia, Ilissia, Petralona, Koukaki an Kypseli, each wi its awn distinct history an characteristics.

The Athens municipality forms the core an centre o Greater Athens an aw which consists o the Athens municipality an 34 mair municipalities, which are dividit in the fower regional units mentioned abuin.

Municipalities o Greater Athens

Central Section: 1. Ceity o Athens 2. Dafni 3. Ilioupoli 4. Vyronas 5. Kaisariani 6. Zografou 7. Galatsi 8. Filadelfeia
Wast Section: 29. Egaleo 30. Agia Varvara 31. Chaidari 32. Peristeri 33. Petroupoli 34. Ilion 35. Agioi Anargyroi – Kamatero		North Section: 9. Nea Ionia 10. Irakleio 11. Metamorfosi 12. Lykovrysi – Pefki 13. Kifissia 14. Penteli - Melissia 15. Amarousio 16. Vrilissia 17. Ag. Paraskevi 18. Cholargos – Papagou 19. Chalandri 20. Filothei – Psychiko
Sooth Section: 21. Glyfada 22. Elliniko-Argyroupoli 23. Alimos 24. Agios Dimitrios 25. Nea Smyrni 26. Faliro 27. Kallithea 28. Moschato

The municipalities o Greater Athens alang wi the municipalities athin Greater Piraeus (regional unit o Piraeus) form the Athens Urban Area, while the lairger metropolitan area includes several addeetional suburbs an touns surroondin the dense urban area o the Greek caipital.

Athens haes several lairge sports clubs lik fitball clubs AEK Athens F.C., Panathinaikos F.C. an Panionios G.S.S, basketbaa club Maroussi B.C. an handbaw club Sony Athinaikos Athens.

Olympic Gemmes

• 1896 - The Simmer Olympic Gemmes teuk place in Athens.
• 2004 - The Simmer Olympic Gemmes teuk place in Athens.

Twin touns – Sister ceities

Athens is twinned wi: