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The large city centre (Greek: Κέντρο της Αθήνας, romanized: Kéntro tis Athínas) of the Greek capital falls directly within the Municipality of Athens (Greek: Δήμος Αθηναίων, romanized: Dímos Athinaíon), which is the largest in population size in Greece and forms the core of the Athens urban area, followed by the ...
The port of Piraeus in Athens is the chief port in Greece, the largest passenger port in Europe [23] [24] and the third largest in the world, [25] servicing about 20 million passengers annually. With a throughput of 1.4 million TEUs , Piraeus is placed among the top ten ports in container traffic in Europe and the top container port in the ...
The Saronic Gulf (Greek: Σαρωνικός κόλπος, Saronikós kólpos) or Gulf of Aegina in Greece is formed between the peninsulas of Attica and Argolis and forms part of the Aegean Sea. It defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Corinth , being the eastern terminus of the Corinth Canal , which cuts across the isthmus.
Geography of Athens. Athens is: a city. capital of Attica; capital of Greece; primate city of Greece; Population of Athens: 637,798 (city proper and municipality) 3,090,508 (urban area) Area of Athens: 38.964 km 2 (15.044 sq mi) (city proper and municipality) 412 km 2 (159 sq mi) (urban area) Atlas of Athens; Topography of Athens
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.
Gulf of Gabès, gulf on Tunisia's east coast in the Mediterranean Sea, off North Africa; Gulf of Guinea, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Equatorial Africa; Gulf of Hammamet, in northeastern Tunisia; Malian Gulf; Gulf of Sirte, on the Mediterranean coast of Libya; Gulf of Suez in the northern end of the Red Sea, leading to the Suez Canal
After the Asia Minor Catastrophe in 1922 thousands of Asia Minor Greek families settled in Athens and the population of the city doubled. Athens experienced its second period of explosive growth following the disastrous Greco-Turkish War in 1921, when more than a million Greek refugees from Asia Minor were resettled in Greece, after the Asia ...
Athens is the nation's capital and its largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western civilisation, being the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, theatre, and the Olympic Games.