This article is about ancient Athens. For modern Athens, see Athens.
Polis
Athens
Ἀθῆναι
Polis
Painting of an idealized reconstruction of the Acropolis and Areios Pagos in Athens, by Leo von Klenze (1846)
Historical affiliations
Kingdom of Athens 1556 BC–1068 BC
City-state of Athens 1068 BC–322 BC
Hellenic League 338 BC–322 BC
Kingdom of Macedonia 322 BC–148 BC
Roman Republic 146 BC–27 BC
Roman Empire 27 BC–395 AD
Eastern Roman Empire 395–1205
Duchy of Athens 1205–1458
Ottoman Empire 1458–1822, 1827–1832
Greece 1822–1827, 1832–present
Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the foundations of Western civilization.
During the early Middle Ages, the city experienced a decline, then recovered under the later Byzantine Empire and was relatively prosperous during the period of the Crusades (12th and 13th centuries), benefiting from Italian trade. Following a period of sharp decline under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, Athens re-emerged in the 19th century as the capital of the independent and self-governing Greek state.
Historical affiliations Kingdom ofAthens 1556 BC–1068 BC City-state ofAthens 1068 BC–322 BC Hellenic League 338 BC–322 BC Kingdom of Macedonia 322 BC–148 BC...
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...
city-state (known as a polis) ofAthens, comprising the city ofAthens and the surrounding territory of Attica. Although Athens is the most famous ancient...
Timon ofAthens (The Life of Tymon ofAthens) is a play written by William Shakespeare and likely also Thomas Middleton in about 1606. It was published...
The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred in November 1973 as a massive student demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974...
The following is a timeline of the historyof the city ofAthens, Greece. 630 BCE – Temple of Athena Polias built (approximate date). 594 BCE – Solonian...
City of the Violet Crown is a term for at least two cities, Athens, Greece and Austin, Texas. In one of his surviving fragments (fragment 76), the Greek...
also the country's most populated city. Athens is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years. Pronunciation:...
The Plague ofAthens (Ancient Greek: Λοιμὸς τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, Loimos tôn Athênôn) was an epidemic that devastated the city-state ofAthens in ancient Greece...
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ofAthens (Greek: Δουκᾶτον Ἀθηνῶν, Doukaton Athinon; Catalan: Ducat d'Atenes) was one of the Crusader states set up in Greece after the conquest of the...
The city ofAthens (Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athênai [a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯]; Modern Greek: Αθήναι, Athine [a.ˈθi.ne̞] or, more commonly and in singular, Αθήνα,...
"Acropolis ofAthens – History". Acropolis ofAthens. Οδυσσεύς. Archived from the original on 24 October 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2007. Nova – PBS. "Secrets of the...
the city ofAthens and region of Attica. It began operation on 28 March 2001 (in time for the 2004 Summer Olympics) and is the main base of Aegean Airlines...
optics, geometry, physiology, anatomy, history, architecture and art. The School ofAthens is regarded as one of Raphael's best-known works and has been...
The Athens Classic Marathon The Authentic is an annual marathon road race held in Athens, Greece, normally in early November (the second Sunday of November)...
Archbishopric ofAthens (Greek: Ιερά Αρχιεπισκοπή Αθηνών) is a Greek Orthodox archiepiscopal see based in the city ofAthens, Greece. It is the senior see of Greece...
ancient Agora ofAthens (also called the Classical Agora) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis...
had advised Cylon to seize Athens during a festival of Zeus, which he understood to mean the Olympics, and become the tyrant of the city himself. Although...
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Eastern Roman Empire 395–1205
Duchy of Athens 1205–1458
Ottoman Empire 1458–1822, 1827–1832
Greece 1822–1827, 1832–present
