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HISTORY OF ATHENS
  |        History
  |        Birthplace of democracy
  |        Walking with history
  |         PRE-HISTORIC
  |                ATHENS DURING PREHISTORIC TIMES
  |         HISTORICAL TIMES
  |                ATHENS DURING HISTORICAL TIMES
  |                     Cylon and Draco
  |                     Solon
  |                     Peisistratos’ tyranny
  |                     Cleisthenes
  |                PERSIAN WARS
  |                DELIAN LEAGUE
  |                PELOPONNESIAN WAR
  |                336 BC to 267 AD
  |                     Beginning of Macedonian rule
  |                     Demetrius the Besieger
  |                     Macedonian rule to neutrality
  |                     On the side of Rome
  |                     Mithridates and Sulla
  |                     Roman rule in Athens
  |         MIDDLE AGES
  |                Neo-Platonic Academy - Christianity in Athens
  |                MIDDLE BYZANTINE PERIOD
  |                FRANKISH OCCUPATION
  |         MODERN TIMES
  |                15th-17th CENTURY
  |                18th CENTURY
  |                GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
  |                     Beginning of the revolution
  |                     Foreign intervention
  |                     The Kingdom of Greece
  |                     Athens and the War
  |                1834-1911
  |                     3 September Revolution
  |                     Troubled times
  |                     Athens grows
  |                     Greco-Turkish War
  |                     Modernization
  |                1912-1949
  |                     The Balkan Wars
  |                WORLD WAR I
  |                GRECO-TURKISH WAR - ASIA MINOR CAMPAGN
  |                     Greek Expansion
  |                     Outcome of the Greek Offensive
  |                     Turkish Offensive
  |                     Asia Minor Catastrophe
  |         MID-WAR PERIOD
  |                REFUGEES RESETTLEMENT
  |                THE MILITARY COUP OF 1923
  |                SECOND HELLENIC REPUBLIC - FIRST REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT
  |                PANGALOS DICTATORSHIP
  |                THE LAST VENEIZELOS GOVERNMENT
  |                PERIOD OF INSTABILITY
  |                METAXAS DICTATORSHIP
  |         WORLD WAR II PERIOD
  |                THE SECOND WORLD WAR
  |                     Greco-Italian War
  |                     Battle of Greece
  |                     Occupation
  |                     Resistance
  |                     Liberation
  |         GREEK CIVIL WAR
  |                GREEK CIVIL WAR
  |                FIRST CONFLICT
  |                FROM AGREEMENT TO CONFRONTATION
  |                DEKEMVRIANA
  |                INTERLUDE
  |                CIVIL WAR
  |                END OF THE WAR
  |         POST-WAR PERIOD
  |                SUCCEEDING GOVERNMENTS
  |                REGIME OF THE COLONELS
  |                     Operation Gladio
  |                     Coup of 21 April
  |                      ROLE OF KING CONSTANTINE
  |                      KING CONSTANTINE’S COUNTER-COUP
  |                      REGENCY AND REPUBLIC
  |                      ANTI-JUNTA MOVEMENT
  |                      POLYTECHINIC UPRISING
  |                      CYPRUS DISPUTE AND FALL
  |                               EOKA CAMPAIGN AND CREATION OF TMT
  |                               CONSTITUTIONAL BREAKDOWN
  |                               PEACEMAKING EFFORTS
  |                               TURKISH INVASAION
  |                               RETURN TO DEMOCRACY
  |         RECENT DECADES
  |                     November 17
  |                     Junta Members Sentences
  |         GREEK HEADS OF STATE
  |         GREEK PRIME MINISTERS
  |         MAYORS OF ATHENS

GENERAL INFORMATION
  |         Location                      
  |         Country dialling code
  |         City population
  |         Religion
  |         Time zone
  |         Electricity
  |         Government
  |         Weather
  |         Food and drink
  |         Health care
  |         The Greek flag
  |         The Greek Anthem
  |         Greek lakes
  |         Greek rivers
  |         Greek mountains

  |         GREEK LIFE IN SHORT
  |                Time
  |                Cinemas
  |                Coffee
  |                Eating habits
  |                Island hopping
  |                Traffic solutions
  |                Born female
  |                Name days
  |                Plate smashing          
  |                Wacky beliefs
  |                Periptera
  |                Pleasure in living
  |         GREEK NAME DAYS
  |         INTERNET CAFES IN ATHENS
  |         GREEK PUBLIC HOLLIDAY
  |               New Year's Day          
  |               Epiphany
  |               Ash Monday
  |               Independence Day
  |               Orthodox Easter
  |               Labour Day
  |               Whit Monday
  |               Assumption Day
  |               No Day
  |               Christmas
  |               Gathering Day

  |         TOURISM OFFICES (G.N.T.O.)
  |         TOURISM OFFICES ABROAD
  |         TOURISM POLICE
  |         ATHENS CITY CENTER MAP
  |         THE GREEK LANGUAGE
  |               The Greek aplfabeth
  |               Learning Greek
  |               Your first Greek words
  |         GREEK MEDIA
  |               Post                    
  |               Courier Services       
  |               Press
  |               Telephone          
  |               Mobile phones          
  |               TV & Radio
  |         HOSPITALS IN ATHENS
  |        USEFULL TELEPHONE NUMBERS
  |         TELEPHONE AREA CODES
  |         INTERNATIONAL BANKS
  |         EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES IN ATHENS
  |         GREEK EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES ABROAD
  |         ATHENS' CATS AND DOGS

HOW TO GET TO ATHENS
  |       By air
  |       By car
  |       By bus
  |       By train
  |       By ferry-boat

ARRIVAL IN ATHENS
  |       Athens International. Airport
  |       Duty-Free
  |       Airlines
  |       Domestic Flights

  |        FROM AIRPORT TO CENTER
  |               Getting to Athens city center
  |               By Taxi
  |               By Express Bus
  |               By Metro
  |        FROM AIRPORT TO PIRAEUS
GETTING AROUND
  |      ATHENS METRO
  |                Metro and archaeology
  |                Metro in style
  |                Airport to center by metro
  |                Metro fares
  |                Metro regular time table
  |                Metro map
  |                Metro names
  |      ATHENS BUSES
  |                Airport to center by bus
  |                Express bus routes and times
  |                Airport to other destinations by bus
  |                City buses and trolleys
  |                Athens city bus routes
  |                Athens sightseeing bus nr. 400
  |      ATHENS TRAM
  |                The new Athens tram
  |                Tram ticket prices
  |                Tram system map
  |      ATHENS TAXI
  |                Taxi cowboys
  |                Athens taxi fares 2005
  |                Taxi driver's obligations
  |                Passenger's obligations
  |                Known scam tricks
  |                How to avoid frustration
  |                Report a taxi scam
  |                Perfect alternative
LONG DISTANCE BUS TIMETABLES
DISTANCE BETWEEN GREEK CITIES
FERRIES TO GREEK ISLANDS
TAXI TRANSFERS IN ATHENS AND IN GREECE
WHAT TO SEE
  |      ACROPOLIS
  |                The Acropolis of Athens
  |                The Rock of Areos Pagos
  |                The Holy Rock
  |                Thank you!
  |                The Flag of the Acropolis
  |                The Art of Conservation
  |                MELINA MERCOURI
  |                         Melina Mercouri
  |                         Melina Mercouri Fondation
  |                ACROPOLIS MUSEUM
  |                ACROPOLIS - WEST SIDE
  |                         Entrance
  |                         Monument of Agrippa
  |                         Propylaea
  |                         Propylaea before
  |                         Temple of Athena Niki
  |                ACROPOLIS - NORTH SIDE
  |                         The Erechteion
  |                         The Erechteion - before
  |                          THE PARTHENON
  |                              Glory of the Acropolis
  |                              Tricks
  |                              Giant Athena
  |                          THE ELGIN MARBLES
  |                              A sad story
  |                              Lord Elgin
  |                              The Parthenon looting
  |                              The marbles in England
  |                              Cleaning scandal
  |                              Return of the marbles?
  |                              WHAT IS WHERE
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