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About Athens
Athens is the capital and biggest city of Greece. Athens commands the Attica area and is one of the world's most established urban communities, with its written history traversing more than 3,400 years and its soonest human nearness beginning somewhere close to the eleventh and seventh thousand years BC.
Traditional Athens was an intense city-express that rose in conjunction with the seagoing advancement of the port of Piraeus, which had been a particular city before its fifth century BCE fuse with Athens. An inside for human expressions, learning and logic, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is generally alluded to as the support of Western development and the origin of democracy, to a great extent due to its social and political effect on the European mainland, and specifically the Romans. In present day times, Athens is an expansive cosmopolitan city and integral to monetary, money related, mechanical, oceanic, political and social life in Greece. In 2012, Athens was positioned the world's 39th wealthiest city by obtaining power and the 67th most expensive in a UBS think about.
Athens is a worldwide city and one of the greatest monetary focuses in southeastern Europe. It has an expansive monetary part, and its port Piraeus is both the biggest traveler port in Europe, and the second biggest in the world. The Municipality of Athens (likewise City of Athens) had a populace of 664,046 (in 2011) inside its regulatory cutoff points, and a land zone of 38.96 km2 (15.04 sq mi). The urban zone of Athens (Greater Athens and Greater Piraeus) stretches out past its authoritative city limits, with a populace of 3,090,508 (in 2011) over a region of 412 km2 (159 sq mi). According to Eurostat in 2011, the utilitarian urban territory (FUA) of Athens was the ninth most crowded FUA in the European Union (the sixth most crowded capital city of the EU), with a populace of 3.8 million individuals. Athens is likewise the southernmost capital on the European terrain.
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