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Athens - Greece
The city of Athens Athene owes its name to the Greek war goddess, the metropolis of Greece is, which one. The real town has 729,100 inhabitants, the agglomeration 3,753,700 inhabitants. It is located in the most wide-area level of the landscape Attica with the rivers Ilysos and Kephisos and mountain ranges of the Hymettos of the Pentelikon of the Parnes are surrounding to three pages and the fourth page opens from the Ägaleo to the sea, the Saronischen golf.
Athens was founded by King Kekrops the tradition after. The town has been one of the oldest settlements of Europe settled continuously and thus for certain for about 5,000 years. Athens became first culture capital of Europe in 1985.
Story of Athens
The history of the city of Athens hands about 7,500 years, till in the neolithic back. A Mycenean royal palace was built at 1300 in front of Christi on the Akropolis. The oldest town plant confined itself to the upper area a steep one, only of the west of here accessible rock hill which formed the military and religious center of Athens later than castle. The area which was safeguarded with nine gates arranged behind each other was already leveled very early and surrounded by a strong wall. This plant was called Pelargikon to the Pelasgern to which one ascribed the making. The old kings of this part of Attica lived within this castle. Athens stood, under the special protection of Zeus to whom an altar built early was dedicated as well as the town protective Athene this one always the oldest temple was also dedicated to the town, the Hekatompedos. Did the oldest market face the town opposite the outer town gate, the Agora?
The town could refine its influence fields for a long time. The legendary King Theseus is ascribed to to have united the different parts of the landscape Attica. Athens reached the highlight of her political and cultural influence in the 5th century ahead of Christi. 86 was incorporated into the Roman empire also as her in front of Christi, she kept her status as an intellectual center. This changed after Christi only in the year 529 when the last philosophy schools were closed on instruction of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I..
1458 became Athens of the Ottomans conquered and lost always further from this time to meaning. The town was practically uninhabited because of several destructions between the 17th century and the 19th century, as it 1833 was raised to the capital of the Greek kingdom founded newly.
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