Athens
Also known as: Athens city · Athenae
- 1Athens is the capital of Greece and the Attica region.
- 2The city is the eighth-largest urban area in the European Union.
- 3The Municipality of Athens had a population of 643,452 as of 2021.
- 4The city covers a land area of 38.96 square kilometres.
- 5Athens joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2016.
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
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Reason for the Minotaur's imprisonment
The Minotaur was fed seven youths and seven maidens sent from Athens every nine years as a penalty for the death of Androgeos.
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece, serving as a major coastal urban center in the Mediterranean. It is the capital of the Attica region and holds the distinction of being the southernmost capital city located on the European mainland.
The Daphni Monastery, an 11th-century Byzantine monastery northwest of central Athens, is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.Wikimedia Commons: File:At_the_Byzantine_Monastery_of_Daphni_on_October_31,_2019.jpgThe Parthenon on the Acropolis hill of Athens, dedicated to Athena ParthenosWikimedia Commons: File:The_Parthenon_in_Athens.jpgThe Delian League under the leadership of Athens before the Peloponnesian War in 431 BCWikimedia Commons: File:Map_athenian_empire_431_BC-no.svg With an urban population exceeding 3.6 million people, the city is the eighth-largest urban area within the European Union. While the broader metropolitan area is vast, the Municipality of Athens functions as a specific administrative unit, which recorded a population of 643,452 in the 2021 census and covers a land area of 38.96 square kilometres. In 2016, the city was formally inducted into the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities.