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 (town), New York
  • Athens (village), 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:

• Athens, Ontario

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.

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see Athens#Cities nicknamed "Athens"