Ampelokipoi is a suburb of the city of Athens in Greece. Athens (Greek: Αθήνα AthÃna IPA ) is the capital of Greece and one of the most famous cities in the world. ...
Athens was the leading city in Greece during the greatest period of Greek civilization during the 1st millennium BC.
Athens sprawls across the central plain of Attica, which is bound by mount Aegaleo on the west, mount Parnitha on the north, mount Penteli to the northeast, mount Hymettus on the east, and the Saronic Gulf on the south-west.
Athens has expanded to cover the entire plain, and is thus unlikely to grow significantly in area in the future, because of the natural boundaries.
Greece became a province of the Roman Empire, but Greek culture would continue to dominate the eastern Mediterranean and when the Empire finally split in two the Eastern or Byzantine Empire, centered on Constantinople, would remain Greek in nature, as well as encompassing Greece itself.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, in a series of wars with the Ottomans, Greece sought to enlarge its boundaries to include the ethnic Greek population of the Ottoman Empire, slowly growing in territory and population until it reached its present configuration in 1947.
Under a negotiated agreement, Greece was given by the EU two years (budgets of 2005 and 2006) to bring the economy in line with the criteria of the European stability pact.
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