According to Mathgeneral, Athens (in Greek Αθήνα, Athína) is the Capital of Greece and currently the largest city in the country. The population of the municipality of Atenas is 741,512 (in 2001), but its Metropolitan Area is much larger and comprises a population of 3.7 million (in 2005). It is the main
Modern Olympic Games – staging and modernity When Athens hosted the first modern Olympic Games (1896), the Panathinaiko Stadium was built on the exact same spot where the athletes in the Panathenaic Stadium fought for victory in ancient times. For
The Greek state administration is divided into the 13 regions Attica, Epirus, Ionian Islands, Crete, Central Greece, North Aegean, East Macedonia and Thrace, Peloponnese, South Aegean, Thessaly, West Greece, West Macedonia and Central Macedonia , which are divided into further
Prehistory The Stone Age (up to about 3600 BC) The oldest traces of human presence in Greece, possibly 400,000 years old, are fossil skull remains from a cave at Petralona in eastern Macedonia. Stone and bone implements of types characteristic