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Acropolis and Athens
: For the most famous example of an Acropolis, see Acropolis of Athens.
The most famous example is the Acropolis of Athens, which, by reason of its historical associations and the several famous buildings erected upon it ( most notably the Parthenon ), is known without qualification as the Acropolis.
The Acropolis of Athens as seen from Mount Lycabettus ( northeast ).
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Reconstruction of the Acropolis and Areios Pagos in Athens, Leo von Klenze, 1846
Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as " The Acropolis " without qualification.
The Acropolis is located on a flat-topped rock that rises above sea level in the city of Athens, with a surface area of about 3 hectares.
Under the Latin Duchy of Athens, the Acropolis functioned as the city's administrative center, with the Parthenon as its cathedral, and the Propylaia as part of the Ducal Palace.
Site plan of the Acropolis at Athens showing the major archaeological remains
Image: AcropolisatathensSitePlan. png | right | 600px | alt = Site plan of the Acropolis at Athens
* The Acropolis of Athens ( Greek Government website )
* UNESCO World Heritage Centre — Acropolis, Athens
* Interactive 3D of Acropolis, Athens
* The Acropolis of Athens: photo album and description
* Acropolis of Athens, Full Reconstruction, animation by the Technological Research Institute, University of Santiago de Compostela, on YouTube
* Timelapse video of Acropolis during Earth Hour 2010 Timelapse showing how the Acropolis of Athens switched off & on the lights during Earth Hour 2010
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During the Acropolis excavations in Athens, which terminated in 1888, many potsherds of the Mycenaean style were found ; but Olympia had yielded either none, or such as had not been recognized before being thrown away, and the temple site at Delphi produced nothing distinctively Aegean ( in dating ).
In 1806, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803 removed the large collection of marble sculptures from the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens and transferred them to the UK.

Acropolis and Greek
Within the later tradition of Western Civilization and classical revival the Acropolis, from at least the mid-18th century on, has often been invoked as a key symbol of the Greek legacy and of the glories of Classical Greece.
* The Acropolis Restoration Project ( Greek Government website )
The most well-known is the Acropolis of Athens, but nearly every Greek city-state had one-the Acrocorinth famed as a particularly strong fortress.
Pergamon's library on the Acropolis ( the ancient Library of Pergamum ) was the second best in the ancient Greek civilization.
* May 30 – WWII: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas tear down the Nazi swastika on the Acropolis in Athens, and replace it with the Greek flag
* 448 Ictinus and Callicrates, Greek architects rebuild Acropolis from Persian destruction
In ancient Greek religion Artemis Caryatis was an epithet of Artemis that was derived from the small polis of Karyai in Laconia ; there an archaic open-air temenos was dedicated to Carya, the Lady of the Nut-Tree, whose priestesses were called the caryatidai, represented on the Athenian Acropolis as the marble caryatids supporting the porch of the Erechtheum.
In June 1827 the Acropolis of Athens, the last Greek fortress on the mainland, capitulated to Ottoman forces.
* Acropolis (" high city "), Athens, Greece ( this is the most well-known example of acropolis ; in fact an acropolis area was part of almost every ancient Greek polis and it was more like a function-part of an ancient polis ( like e. g. agora, walls, etc.
Good pace in Portugal and taking third place on the Acropolis Rally at least appeared to mark a turnaround in the quality of the younger Solberg's results, although even Greek event wasn't problem-free for the Norwegian as he experienced some damper problems.
The Erechtheion () is an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens in Greece.
During the Greek War of Independence, the peasants of Attica were the first to revolt ( April 1821 ), and they occupied Athens and seized the Acropolis that was handed over to the Greeks in June, 1822.
* High classical refers to Greek art associated mainly with Athens and the works atop the Acropolis
The first Olympic medals in 1896 were designed by French sculptor Jules-Clément Chaplain and depicted Zeus holding Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, on the obverse and the Acropolis on the reverse.
This position may well have resulted from its central location in the Greek world, its secure stronghold on the Acropolis and its access to the sea, which gave it a natural advantage over inland rivals such as Thebes and Sparta.
In 1822, a Greek insurgency captured the city, but it fell to the Ottomans again in 1826 ( though Acropolis held till June 1827 ).
* The Hephaesteum below the Acropolis at Athens, long known as the " Theseum " ( 449 – 444 BC ), also one of the most intact Greek temples surviving from antiquity )
The Temple of Athena Nike ( Greek: Ναός Αθηνάς Νίκης ) is a temple on the Acropolis of Athens.
The Ancient Agora of Athens ( aka Forum of Athens in older texts ) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis and is bounded on the south by the hill of the Areopagus and on the west by the hill known as the Colonus Agoraeus.
Athens was on its most part a ran-down village, its peasant Greek population extremely poor and isolated, not allowed near the Acropolis where the more wealthy Turks were settled.
Tatoi, located 5 km north of Athens's suburbs, and 27 km from the Athenian Acropolis was the summer palace and 10, 000 acre estate of the former Greek Royal Family, and the site of George II of the Hellenes's birth.
A Propylaea, Propylea or Propylaia (; Greek: Προπύλαια ) is any monumental gateway based on the original Propylaea that serves as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens.
The western wing on the north ( to the left as one enters the Acropolis ) was famous in antiquity as the location of paintings of important Greek battles.

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