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Attica (Greek: Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or Attikī́, Ancient Greek: [atːikɛ̌ː] or Modern:), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns.
The name of Attica (Greek: Ἀττική) was said to be derived from Atthis, daughter of Cranaus, who was said to have been the second king of Athens. The origin of the name, however, is most likely pre-Greek in origin. Attica is bounded on the east by the Aegean sea, on the west by Megaris and the Saronic gulf and on the north by Boeotia.
Map of ancient Athens showing the Acropolis in middle, the Agora to the northwest, and the city walls. Athens was in Attica, about 30 stadia from the sea, on the southwest slope of Mount Lycabettus, between the small rivers Cephissus to the west, Ilissos to the south, and the Eridanos to the north, the latter of which flowed through the town ...
English: A map of ancient Boeotia, Attica and Phocis in Gustav Droysen’s „Historischer Handatlas“. Français : Carte des régions grecques antiques de Béotie, de l'Attique et de Phocide, dans l'ouvrage de Gustav Droysen Allgemeiner Historischer Handatlas ("Petit atlas historique général") paru chez Velhagen & Klasing en 1886 sous la ...
Map of ancient Attica divided into its thirty trittyes.Those belonging to the same phyle are numbered and coloured accordingly.. The trittyes (/ ˈ t r ɪ t i. iː z /; Ancient Greek: τριττύες trittúes), singular trittys (/ ˈ t r ɪ t ɪ s /; τριττύς trittús) were part of the organizational structure that divided the population in ancient Attica, and is commonly thought to ...
Maps, plans, views and coins illustrative of the travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian era Author J. J. Barthélemy
The division of Attica into urban (pink), inland (green), and coastal (blue) zones by Cleisthenes The Paralia ( Greek : Παραλία , lit. 'the sea-side/coast') was a geographical and administrative region ( trittys ) of ancient Attica .
Plate with depiction of gorgons, c. 600–575 BC recovered at Anagyrous; National Museum, Attica.. Anagyrus or Anagyrous (Ancient Greek: Ἀναγυροῦς), also Anagyruntus or Anagyrountos (Ἀναγυροῦντος), was a deme of ancient Attica, belonging to the phyle Erechtheis, situated in the south of Attica near the promontory Zoster.