Athens

[ath-inz]

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Greek Athenai.��a city in and the capital of Greece, in the southeastern part.
Greater Athens, a metropolitan area comprising the city of Athens, Piraeus, and several residential suburbs.
a city in northern Georgia.
a city in southern Ohio.
a town in northern Alabama.
a town in southern Tennessee.
a town in eastern Texas.
any city that is compared to Athens, especially as a cultural center.
the Athens of the Midwest.

Athens

/ ˈæθɪ�Գ� /

Greek name: Athinai.�� Athina.��the capital of Greece, in the southeast near the Saronic Gulf: became capital after independence in 1834; ancient city-state, most powerful in the 5th century _bc ; contains the hill citadel of the Acropolis. Pop: 3 238 000 (2005 est)

Athens

Capital of Greece in east-central Greece on the plain of Attica, overlooking an arm of the Mediterranean Sea. Named after its patron goddess, Athena, Athens is Greece's largest city and its cultural, administrative, and economic center.

Athens

A leading city of ancient Greece, famous for its learning, culture, and democratic institutions. The political power of Athens was sometimes quite limited, however, especially after its defeat by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War. Pericles was a noted ruler of Athens. (See also under “World Geography.”)

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As the cultural center of Greece, ancient Athens was home to influential writers and thinkers such as Aristophanes, Euripides, Socrates, and Plato.

Its principal landmark is the Acropolis, on which stands the remains of the Parthenon and other buildings.

In the fifth century b.c., Athens was one of the world's most powerful and highly civilized cities (see also under “World History to 1550”).

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Postecoglou was born in Athens but emigrated to Australia with his family when he was five.

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Earlier this year, his Alter Ego Media company, the largest media organisation in Greece, floated on the Athens stock market.

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The couple had led a "global" life, living in Paris, Brussels, London, Athens and Egypt before settling in Jersey.

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Temperatures in London soared above several European cities, including Athens and Rome.

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Alabama is all she’s ever known, aside from a brief stint in Athens, where she first set out to make a name for herself at the University of Georgia.

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