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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.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Athens, Greece This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Mapping Ancient Athens is a project by a Greek non-profit Dipylon, launched in 2021, that aims to map and provide an interactive digital portal to explore the archaeological remains and historical data from more than 1500 rescue excavations conducted across Athens over the past 160 years. The project created a searchable map interface that ...
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 ...
The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is known as the "Age of Pericles". Ostracism – procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years. Areopagus – council of elders of Athens, similar to the
An enlargeable topographic map of Greece. Geography of Greece. Greece is: a country; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Europe. Southern Europe. Balkans (also known as "Southeastern Europe") Time zone: Eastern European Time , Eastern European Summer Time ; Extreme points of Greece. High: Mount Olympus 2,919 m (9,577 ft)
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This category is for historic maps showing all or part of Europe. See subcategories for smaller areas. "Historic maps" means maps made over seventy (70) years ago.