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211. By 1997 or thereabouts Athens will have a new airport, plus the best underground railway in Europe.

212. Athens built up its naval supremacy in the Aegean under the guidance of Themistocles.

213. The first modern Olympic Games opened in Greek capital Athens.

214. Modern Greek Olympic gatherings had been held in Athens since 1859, but the efforts of Frenchman Pierre Fr?dy, Baron de Coubertin, and others revived the games as an international event.

215. When just a girl she was taken to Athens, (dressed as a man), by her lover. She was highly intelligent and studied hard and when they moved to Rome she taught the liberal arts (the trivium).

216. A new museum is opening in the Greek capital Athens with a special gallery in it for the Elgin Marbles, Greek sculptures that have been held in the British Museum in London for nearly 200 years.

217. Athens is the capital of Greece as well as Greece's largest city and industrial center.

218. Athens has been a headache to International Olympic Committee, not least because of infighting.

219. Field played the Olympic theme song from the Athens City Philharmonic Orchestra concert.

220. From then on, Pallas become the protect goddess of the city Athens.

221. Athens, with the rest of Greece, was at that time a protectorate of Macedonia.

222. It is the home ground for football teams AEK Athens and Panathinaikos.

223. One of them was Attica ; its centre, the city of Athens.

224. Bema: (Greek: "step") Raised stone platform originally used in Athens as a tribunal where orators addressed the citizens and courts of law.

225. The quake with a magnitude of six-point-five was felt throughout the capital, Athens.

226. He added that Michelangelo's appearance in the foreground of Raphael's The School of Athens suggests he suffered from "an excess of uric acid[Sentence dictionary], typical of those afflicted by renal calculosis".

227. "A concession with a long lease is better for all concerned, " says Dika Agapitidou, director of Athens Economics Ltd. , a property consultant and affiliate of Jones Lang LaSalle.

228. Athens, the capital of Greece, is known as the birthplace of western civilization.

229. Paris was unable to convince members to keep the Olympics in Europe for a third straight time after the 2004 Summer Games in Athens and 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy.

230. Hellenization Alexander the Great's father was Philip II, King of Macedonia, King of Macedon, and he conquered different Greek city-states by defeating Athens and its allies at Chaeronea in 338 BC.

231. I remember with particular vividness a hastily snatched visit to Athens.

232. The indignados of Madrid, Athens and Paris demand support for a "European social model", which promises free education and healthcare and a decent income for all.

233. For the first time Athens became an Aegean power to be reckoned with.

234. A museum has opened in Athens with a special gallery for the Elgin Marbles, Greek sculptures which have been in the British Museum in London for nearly 200 years and are still there.

235. In the year 508 before the common era, after the overthrow of a tyrant, Cleisthenes established a democracy in Athens.

236. The 2004 Athens Olympics was Denmark's twenty-fourth participation of the Summer Olympics.

237. Thespis, of Athens (6th BC) was the first person to speak lines as an individual actor on stage, thus the term “Thespian” to refer to a theatrical performer was born.

238. Athens, Greece: Greek surveyors work above the pediment of the ancient Parthenon temple on the Acropolis.

239. Greece's top central banker called on the government to speed up efforts to close the budget gap amid growing concerns elsewhere in Europe that Athens can't pull itself out of its debt spiral.

240. Human-rights groups and local residents oppose plans to use an old military base outside Athens as a detention centre .