Question

Prosze o pomoc ! Musze zrobić prezentacje o Atenach na angielski !!!!!!!!!!!

Nie musi to być tak dużo bo i tak będe musiała jeszcze to dopracować !!!!! ale prosze !!!!

Answer 1

Athens, Athina, the capital of Greece, in the south-east of the country, in south-western part of the Attica peninsula. Attica nomos administrative center, built around the Acropolis hill and Likabetu. 3.3 million. Population (1991), Town of, so called. Big Athens, an area of 433 km2, including Piraeus and 36 cities and municipalities between the lowland of the Saronic Gulf and the mountains Pentelikon, 3.5 million inhabitants (1990). The largest industrial and commercial center of Greece (about 50% of total employment in industry, around 70% of industrial country).

Athens, Parthenon
History
The earliest traces of settlement from the third millennium BC In the second Call. Second millennium BC, during the mykeńskim, built on the Acropolis, a fortified castle, around which a settlement. In the XI-VII century BC to the south. and Mon. from the Acropolis, the agora was a city surrounded by the sixth century BC walls (mainly the town of Attica). 570-550 BC erected a temple on the Acropolis Athens Polias (babysitter cities), so called. Hekatompedon, at the foot of the hill - the sacred circle of the temple of Dionysus and the theater. 480-479 BC

Athens had been destroyed by the Persians (Persian War). Themistocles began the reconstruction, building the so-called. Long walls, connecting the city of Piraeus and Faleronem. 468-461 BC (During the Kimono) are formed, among others Tolosa and the Stoa Pojkile. During the reign of Pericles (443-429 BC), Athens became one of the most powerful Greek city-states (Athens Union of Marine), a center of cultural, scientific, economic and political life of particular importance (the activity of Phidias and Socrates). It was built so. Tezejon, the conversion of the Acropolis of Athens, completed Long Walls.

The V-IV century BC, during the peak period of development, Athens consisted of approximately 150 thousand. inhab. and had seven districts. Rivalry with Sparta for hegemony in Greece ended in defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC). Still, however, remained the center of intellectual life (Plato, Aristotle). After the loss of political significance (the defeat at Cheroneją 338 BC) the city was under the care of Hellenistic rulers: Eumenes II and Attalus II Philadelphus. 146 BC became part of the province of Rome. 86 BC conquered and destroyed by Sulla. In the second century AD, Roman Emperor by Hadrianowi and Herodesowi Attykowi, was the last period of glory in Athens. And plundered by the Visigoths and raked Herulów (IV century), after the close of Plato's Academy (529) lost their meaning, which only recovered in 1834, becoming the capital of independent Greece.
Industry
Developed including Industries: shipbuilding, petroleum refining, petrochemical, food, textile, clothing and leather. Centre of economic and financial (banks and insurance companies). An important transportation hub. Elinikon International Airport (Hellenikon). Numerous universities, including The university (founded 1926) and Technical University. Cultural and tourist resort of international importance. Museums to world fame, including: the National Archaeological Museum, the Museum: Byzantine, Benakisa, the Acropolis, the Agora.