Athens (disambiguation)
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Athens is the capital city of Greece.
- Classical Athens, the city in Classical Antiquity
- See also History of Athens
Athens may also refer to:
- Athens access and identity management, an access and identity management service
- the Athens meteorite of 1933, which fell in Alabama, United States (see Meteorite falls)
- The Athenian School in Danville, California
- The ATHENS Programme, an exchange network of European higher education institutions in engineering, coordinated by ParisTech
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In the United States:
- Athens, Alabama
- Athens, California
- Athens, Georgia
- Athens, Illinois
- Athens, Indiana
- Athens, Louisiana
- Athens, Maine
- Athens, Michigan
- Athens, Mississippi
- Athens, New York:
- Athens, Ohio, a town
- Athens County, Ohio
- Athens, Pennsylvania, a borough
- Athens, Tennessee
- Athens, Texas
- Athens, Vermont
- Athens, West Virginia
- Athens, Wisconsin
- New Athens, Illinois
- West Athens, California
- Several Athens Townships
In Canada:
In the United Kingdom:
- "Athens of the North", a nickname given to Edinburgh in Scotland, due to the large number of neo-classical buildings and structures built during the 18th and 19th centuries and to the Scottish Enlightenment period of intellectual activity.
On the Black Sea:
- Pontic Athens, a city mentioned in the 2nd century Periplus Ponti Euxini which may have been a colony of the Greek city
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see Athens#Cities nicknamed "Athens"