Outline of Athens

Athens

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Athens:

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece . A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland . With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 in 2021, within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 km² (15.04 sq mi).

General reference

• Pronunciation: /ˈæθɪnz/ ATH-inz; Greek : Αθήνα, romanized: Athína [aˈθina] ^ⓘ ; Ancient Greek : Ἀθῆναι, romanized: Athênai [atʰɛ̂ːnai̯]
• Common English name(s): Athens
• Official English name(s): Athens
• Adjectival(s): Athenian
• Demonym(s): Athenian

Geography of Athens

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 km² (15.044 sq mi) (city proper and municipality)
  • 412 km² (159 sq mi) (urban area)
• Atlas of Athens
• Topography of Athens

Location of Athens

Athens Αθήνα
Athens Location within Greece
Coordinates: 37°59′02.3″N23°43′40.1″E / 37.983972°N 23.727806°E / 37.983972; 23.727806

• Athens is situated within the following regions:
  • Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere
    • Eurasia
      • Europe (outline)
        • Southern Europe
          • Balkan peninsula
            • Greece (outline)
              • Central Greece
                • Attica
                  • Central Athens
                    • Municipality of Athens
• Time zones:
  • Eastern European Time (UTC+02)
  • Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03)

Environment of Athens

Mount Lycabettus

The Acropolis of Athens, a World Heritage Site, as seen from the Areopagus

• Climate of Athens

Natural geographic features of Athens

• Hills in Athens
  • Areopagus
  • Mount Lycabettus
  • Pnyx
  • Skouze Hill
  • Strefi Hill
• Rivers in Athens
  • Cephissus
  • Ilisos
• World Heritage Sites in Athens
  • Acropolis of Athens
  • Daphni Monastery

Areas surrounding Athens

Municipality of Athens

Municipality of Athens

Areas of Athens

Neighborhoods in municipality of Athens

Aerides Agios Eleftherios Agios Panteleimonas Akadimia Akadimia Platonos Acropolis Ampelokipi Anafiotika Ano Petralona Asyrmatos Asteroskopeio Attiki Eleonas Ellinoroson Erythros Stavros

Exarcheia Gazi Girokomeio Gyzi Goudi Gouva Ilisia Kallimarmaro Kato Petralona Keramikos Kolokynthou Kolonaki Kolonos Koukaki Kountouriotika

Kypriadou Kypseli Kynosargous Makrygianni Metaxourgeio Mets Monastiraki Nea Filothei Neapoli Neos Kosmos Omonoia Pangrati Patisia Pedion tou Areos Petralona

Philopappou Plaka Polygono Probonas Profitis Daniil Profitis Ilias Psyri Rizoupoli Rouf Sepolia Syntagma Thiseio Thymarakia Treis Gefyres Votanikos

Athens Metropolitan Area

View of Athens

Athens Metropolitan Area

• Central Athens
• North Athens
• South Athens
• West Athens
• Piraeus
• East Attica
• West Attica

Aerial view of the Athens urban area and the Saronic Gulf

Athens Urban Area

Athens Urban Area

• North Athens
• Central Athens
• South Athens
• West Athens
• Piraeus
• Part of East Attica
• Part of West attica

Locations in Athens

The Acropolis of Athens as seen from the Hill of the Muses

Remains of the Roman Agora built in Athens during the Roman period

The Stoa of Attalos

The Erechtheion

The Parthenon

Temple of Olympian Zeus

The Temple of Hephaestus

Theatre of Dionysus

The Zappeion, a Conference and Exhibition Centre in Neoclassical style

Evzone guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

The National Archaeological Museum

The Old Royal Palace

• Tourist attractions
  • Museums in Athens
  • Shopping areas and markets

Ancient monuments in Athens

• Acropolis
• Altar of the Twelve Gods
• Altar of Zeus Agoraios
• Ancient Agora
• Areopagus
• Aristotle's Lyceum
• Dipylon
• Hadrian's Library
• Monument of Lysicrates
• Philopappos Monument
• Platonic Academy
• Remains of the Acharnian Road, Acharnian Gate and Cemetery Site
• Remains of the Long Walls
• Roman Agora
  • East Propylon
  • Gate of Athena Archegetis
  • Tower of the Winds
• Sacred Gate
• Stoa of Attalos
• Themistoclean Walls
• Ancient temples in Athens
  • Erechtheion
  • Parthenon
    • Older Parthenon
  • Temple of Apollo Patroos
  • Temple of Ares
  • Temple of Athena Nike
  • Temple of Hephaestus
  • Temple of Olympian Zeus
• Ancient theatres
  • Odeon of Herodes Atticus
  • Theatre of Dionysus
• Ancient triumphal arches in Athens
  • Arch of Hadrian

Churches in Athens

• Cathedral Basilica of St. Dionysius the Areopagite
• Church of Saint Panteleimon of Acharnai
• Church of the Holy Apostles, Athens
• Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens

Cultural and exhibition centers in Athens

• Athinais Cultural Center
• City of Athens Cultural Center
• Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
• Zappeion

Monuments and memorials in Athens

• Choragic Monument of Lysicrates
• Monument of the Eponymous Heroes
• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Museums in Athens

• Acropolis Museum – opened in 2009, and replacing the old museum on the Acropolis, this museum has proved considerably popular; almost one million people visited during the summer period June–October 2009 alone. A number of smaller and privately owned museums focused on Greek culture and arts are also to be found.
• Benaki Museum – with a branch for each of its collections including ancient, Byzantine, Ottoman-era, and Chinese art and beyond
• Byzantine and Christian Museum – one of the most important museums of Byzantine art
• Epigraphical Museum
• Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art
• Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art
• Jewish Museum of Greece – its collection describes the history and culture of the Greek Jewish community.
• Kerameikos Archaeological Museum – displays artifacts from the burial site of Kerameikos. Much of the pottery and other artifacts relate to Athenian attitudes towards death and the afterlife, throughout many ages.
• Municipal Gallery of Athens
• Museum of Cycladic Art – home to an extensive collection of Cycladic art, including its famous figurines of white marble
• Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments
• Museum of the City of Athens
• National Archaeological Museum – largest archaeological museum in the country, and one of the most important internationally. It contains a vast collection of antiquities, with artifacts covering a period of more than 5,000 years, from late Neolithic Age to Roman Greece.
• National Gallery
• National Historical Museum
• National Museum of Contemporary Art
• Numismatic Museum – houses a major collection of ancient and modern coins
• Syntagma Metro Station Archaeological Collection
• Athens War Museum

Palaces and villas in Athens

• Old Royal Palace
• Presidential Mansion
• Stathatos Mansion

Parks and gardens in Athens

• Attica Zoological Park
• Hellenikon Metropolitan Park
• National Gardens
• Pedion tou Areos

Public squares in Athens

• Avdi Square
• Kolonaki Square
• Kotzia Square
• Monastiraki
• Omonoia Square
• Syntagma

Streets of Athens

Streets in Athens

• Dionysiou Areopagitou Street
• Ermou Street
• Kifisias Avenue
• Panepistimiou Street
• Vasilissis Sofias Avenue
• Vouliagmenis Avenue

Demographics of Athens

Demographics of Athens

Government and politics of Athens

Evzones of the Presidential Guard wearing the traditional full dress uniform

Administration of Athens

• Mayor of Athens

Law and order in Athens

• Hellenic Police
• Presidential Guard

History of Athens

History of Athens

History of Athens, by period or event

Timeline of Athens

• Athens during the Greek Dark Ages (c. 900 BC)
• Athens during the Archaic period (c. 800–480 BC)
  • Rise of the polis
• Solonian Constitution (594 BC)

Pericles, prominent Greek statesman, orator and general during the Golden Age of Athens

• Classical Athens during the Classical period (508–322 BC)
  • Rise to power (508–448 BC)
    • Fifth-century Athens
      • Athenian democracy
        • Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC)
        • First Peloponnesian War (460–445 BC)
        • Athenian hegemony (448–430 BC) – the peak of Athenian hegemony was achieved in the 440s to 430s BC, known as the Age of Pericles.
        • Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC)
        • Plague of Athens (430 BC)
        • Athenian democracy was briefly overthrown by the coup of 411 BC.
  • Corinthian War (395–387 BC)
  • Athens under Macedon (355–322 BC)
• Hellenistic Athens during the Hellenistic period (323 BC–146 BC)
• Roman Athens (146 BC–330 AD) – following the Battle of Corinth (146 BC), Greece was absorbed into the Roman Republic as part of the Achaea Province, concluding 200 years of Macedonian supremacy. Under Rome, Athens was given the status of a free city.
• Byzantine Athens
• Latin Athens
  • Duchy of Athens (1204–1458)
• Ottoman Athens
  • Greek War of Independence (1821–1829) Independence from the Ottomans
• Modern Athens
  • Athens during the Greek Kingdom (1832–1924, 1935–1973)
    • Second Hellenic Republic (1924–1935)
• Athens during World War II
  • Axis occupation of Greece
  • Greek Resistance
  • Dekemvriana
• Athens today

History of Athens, by subject

• Battle of Athens (1941)
• Siege of the Acropolis (1821–22)
• Siege of the Acropolis (1826–27)

Culture of Athens

The Academy of Athens

The National Library of Greece

Culture of Athens

Parnassos Literary Society. From left: Georgios Stratigis, Georgios Drossinis, Ioannis Polemis, Kostis Palamas at the center, Georgios Souris and Aristomenis Provelengios, poets of the New Athenian School. Painting by Georgios Roilos

View of the Acropolis by Georg Macco, 1933

Arts in Athens

Architecture of Athens

Neoclassical architecture in Athens

• Athener Trilogie  [ de ] (Athenian Neoclassical Trilogy)
  • Academy of Athens
  • National Library of Greece
  • University of Athens

Modern architecture in Athens

• Landscaping of the Acropolis of Athens
• Tallest buildings in Athens
  • Athens Towers

Literature of Athens

• First Athenian School
• New Athenian School

Music of Athens

Music of Athens

• Athens Concert Hall
• Athens Conservatoire
• National Conservatoire

Theatre of Athens

Theatre in Athens

• National Theatre of Greece
  • National Theatre of Greece Drama School

Visual arts of Athens

Athens in art / Paintings of Athens

Tzatziki, a popular meze in Greece

Modern Greek art

• Contemporary Greek art

Cuisine of Athens

Events in Athens

• Athens Festival
• Athens International Motor Show

Media in Athens

• Newspapers in Athens
  • Ta Nea
  • To Vima
• Radio in Athens
• Television in Athens

People from Athens

• Athenians Project

Religion in Athens

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens

• Catholicism in Athens
  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Athens
• Greek Orthodoxy in Athens
  • Archbishopric of Athens
    • Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens
• Islam in Athens
  • Votanikos Mosque

Sports in Athens

Opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athen's Olympic Stadium

Panathenaic Stadium

Sports in Athens

• Basketball in Athens
  • AEK B.C.
  • Acropolis International Basketball Tournament
• Football in Athens
  • Athens Football Clubs Association
    • AEK Athens F.C.
    • A.O. Nea Ionia F.C.
    • Apollon Smyrnis F.C.
    • Atromitos F.C.
    • Panathinaikos F.C.
• Rugby football in Athens
  • Athens RFC
  • Attica Springboks RFC
• Olympics in Athens
  • Hellenic Olympic Committee
  • 1896 Summer Olympics
  • 2004 Summer Olympics
• Running in Athens
  • Athens Classic Marathon
  • Athens International Ultramarathon Festival
• Sports venues in Athens
  • Athens Olympic Sports Complex
  • Goudi Olympic Complex
  • Hellinikon Olympic Complex
  • Panathenaic Stadium

Economy and infrastructure of Athens

National Bank of Greece headquarters in Athens

Economy of Athens

• Financial services in Athens
  • National Bank of Greece
  • Athens Stock Exchange
    • Companies listed on the Athens Stock Exchange
• Hotels in Athens
  • Hilton Athens
  • Hotel Grande Bretagne
  • President Hotel Athens
• Restaurants in Athens
• Tourism in Athens

Transportation in Athens

The Syntagma Metro Station Archaeological Collection

Metro train at Omonia metro station

Stadiou Street

Transportation in Athens

• Public transport in Athens
  • Transport for Athens
• Air transport in Athens
  • Airports in Athens
    • Athens International Airport

Rail transport in Athens

Rail transport in Athens

• Commuter rail
  • Athens Railway Station
    • Expansion of the Athens Railway Station
• Athens Metro
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    • List of Athens Metro stations
• Trams in Athens
  • Athens Tram
    • Trams in Athens

Road transport in Athens

Road transport in Athens

• Bus transport in Athens
• Highways in Athens
  • Motorways in Athens
    • A1 motorway (E75) – connects Athens to Lamia, Larissa, and Thessaloniki
    • A6 motorway (E94) – connects Athens eastward to Athens International Airport, and westward to Elefsina, Corinth, and Patras (via the A8 motorway)
    • A62 motorway – the Hymettus Ring Road that runs east of the city
    • A621 motorway – a short motorway near Gerakas, connecting the A6 with the A62
  • National roads in Athens
    • GR-1 Ν – connects Athens to Lamia, Larissa, and Thessaloniki
    • GR-8 W – connects Athens to Corinth and Patras
    • GR-3 N – connects Athens to Elefsina, Lamia, and Larissa
• Streets in Athens

Education in Athens

The first, historic building of the Panteion University

Education in Athens

• Academy of Athens
• Universities in Athens
  • Athens University of Economics and Business
  • Agricultural University of Athens
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • Panteion University
  • Harokopio University of Athens
  • University of Piraeus
  • Athens School of Fine Arts
  • University of West Attica

Healthcare in Athens

Hospitals in Athens

• Evangelismos Hospital

See also

• Greece portal

• Outline of geography

External links

Wikimedia Atlas of Athens

Official

• Official website

Historical

• EIE.gr – Page on Archaeology of the City of Athens in the National Hellenic Research Foundation website
• Rg.ancients.info/owls – Athenian owl coins
• Kronoskaf.com – Simulation of Athens in 421 BC
• Athens Museums Information – Guide with pictures, visitor comments and reviews

Travel

• Athens - The Greek National Tourism Organization
• This is Athens - The official City of Athens guide
• Athens Urban Transport Organisation

Visual

• Timelapse video of Athens Timelapse showing Athens in the Attica region
• Athens 1973
• Athens In Pictures
• Athens Photo Guide