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Athens
Greece's
capital and largest city, Athens dominates its economic, cultural, and
political life.
Athens is one of the oldest cities in the world, probably being inhabited
for some six thousand years — the
Acropolis of Athens has been peopled since Neolithic times and
it may be the oldest continuously inhabited capital city in Europe. With a recorded history of
at least 3,000 years, as early as 1400 BC
Athens was fortified in
the manner of
Mycenae,
Tiryns, and other
late
Bronze Age citadels. At that
time and in the subsequent 'dark age' (1200-900 BC) that followed the
Dorian invasions, Athens was one of a number of petty states in
Attica. In the
mid-9th century BC, the surrounding territory, including the seaport of
Piraeus, was incorporated into the city-state of Athens.
Its cultural achievements laid the foundations of western civilization.
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According to Greek mythology, when
Athena and Poseidon disputed for the
honor of being the city's patron, the goddess of wisdom produced an olive branch, the
symbol of peace and prosperity, and the sea-god created a horse, symbolic of war. The gods
deemed the olive the better boon, and the city was called Athens.
The birthplace of
Socrates,
Pericles,
Sophocles
and many other prominent philosophers, politicians and writers of the
ancient world, early on Athens matured into a centre for the arts, learning
and philosophy, and, in the first millennium BC, it became the leading city
of Ancient Greece, even surpassing
Sparta.
Today, the Greek capital is Europe's 8th largest city, with
an urban population of 3.3 million and a metropolitan population of about
3.8 million people.
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Sources: (1)
City of Athens official website;
(2)
An Online History of Athens.
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