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This List of modern cities named after Athens recounts modern city names entirely named after Athens, Greece, or containing Athens as a segment. United States Athens, Alabama (pop. 30,904)
This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States
Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world [7] and the second-oldest European capital city (after Athens), predating other modern European capitals by centuries. [8] Settled by pre-Celtic tribes and later founded and civilized by the Phoenicians, Julius Caesar made it a municipium called Felicitas Julia, [9] adding the term to the name ...
Map of host cities and countries of the modern summer (orange) and winter (blue) Olympics. * Tokyo hosted the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021, postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the SVG file, tap or hover over a city to show its name (only on the desktop).
The third-largest-city is Patras, with a metropolitan area of approximately 250,000 inhabitants. The table below lists the largest cities in Greece, by population size, using the official census results of 1991, [1] 2001, [2] 2011 [3] and 2021. [4]
This is a list of planned cities (sometimes known as planned communities or new towns) by country. Additions to this list should be cities whose overall form (as opposed to individual neighborhoods or expansions) has been determined in large part in advance on a drawing board, or which were planned to a degree which is unusual for their time and place.
Pages in category "Athens-related lists" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... List of modern cities named after Athens; P.
Moscow: The city is named after the river (old гра́д Моско́в, literally "the city by the Moskva River"). The origin of the name is unknown, although several theories exist. [67] One theory suggests that the source of the name is an ancient Finnic language, in which it means "dark" and "turbid".