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Athens

Athens (the capital and largest city of Greece)

geographical area, settlement, city, administrative area within a nation, town or city, World Heritage Site, populated place, university city
Location
Greece, Attikí
Location of
Parthenon; Acropolis of Athens; Olympic Stadium; Parthenon; Aegean Airlines;  …
Population
3,370,000; 725,049
Website
http://www.cityofathens.gr
Area
411.717 square kilometres
Births
Plato; Socrates; Kim Basinger; Arianna Huffington; Sophocles;  …
Capital of
Greece, Attikí, Classical Athens, Duchy of Athens, Athens Prefecture,  …
Origin of
Sakis Rouvas, Rotting Christ, Anna Vissi, Septic Flesh, Elli Kokkinou,  …
Mayor
Nikitas Kaklamanis, Miltiadis Evert, Leonidas Kouris, Emmanouil Benakis, Michail Melas,  …
Subsidiaries
Votanikos Arena
Wikipedia Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens
Contents
Aegean Airlines, FIDE, National Bank of Greece, OTE, Consolidated Contractors International Company,  …
Broadcast Area of
Athens International Radio
Closest Airport
Athens International Airport, Athinai Airport
Deaths
Plato, Socrates, Oedipus, Sophocles, Pericles,  …
Coordinates
37°58'00"N, 37°58'01"N, 23°42'60"E
End of
Olympia Odos, Motorway 1
Overlaps
Hymettus, mpafi
Residents
Socrates, Arianna Huffington, Theseus, Draco, Izabella St. James,  …
Employees
Dora Bakoyannis
Class
settlement, city, administrative area within a nation, town or city, World Heritage Site,  …
Name-source of
Athens, Georgia; Athens, Ohio; Athens, Texas; Athens, Tennessee; The Athenian School
Websites
http://www.athensconventionbureau.gr
Roles
mayor
Featured in
My Life in Ruins
Theme of
Demos, the discovery of classical Attika; Streetwise Athens; The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis
Wordnet Synset ID
"108785343"
Gns Unique Feature Identifier
"-814876"
Founded here
University of Georgia, Widespread Panic, Ohio University, Panathinaikos, S.A.,  …
Freebase ID
"/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000000505e"
Related Websites
http://www.athens.ukgo.com, http://www.proastiakos.net, http://www.thisisathens.org/default.php?pname=Home&la=1#&la=1, http://s3.mindbrix.co.uk/Zoomable/Athens%20Panorama/index.html, http://www.fotopedia.com/en/Athens,  …
Open Calais URI
http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/ff6499bd-6789-7de1-6c62-c152c48d133b, http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/c94cde71-7a7c-1cbf-ef4c-adfd98c581bd, http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/8f5dd825-61a7-b0d8-55e2-8462a42a3284, http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/008c018b-588f-49c9-e7a9-f3f455266d2b
Parts
a railway station
Visited by
Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Condoleezza Rice, Cicero, Hypatia of Alexandria,  …
Visitors
Marcus Aurelius
King
Theseus, Aegeus, Cecrops I, Erechtheus, Codrus,  …
GeoNames URL
http://sws.geonames.org/264371/
DBPedia URI
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Athens
Met Office ID
"70"
Aliases
"at athinai", "at athens", "in athinai", "in athens", "athinai",  …
Rare Terms
"the municipality of athens"; "the athina"; "the athens greece"; "the athens, greece"; "the athenians";  …
Things Running Through
Greek National Road 1, Greek National Road 8A, Greek National Road 8
Freebase Primary MID
"/m/0n2z"
Raised
Plato, Dora Bakoyannis
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