Cities
The principal cities of the region of Central Greece according to the census of 2001 are:
- Athens
- 3,130,841 (Athens metropolitan area)
- including all the towns around Athens urban area
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- 3,761,810)
- Lamia
- 58,601
- Agrinio
- 57,147
- Chalkida
- 53,584
- Thebes
- 21,211
- Livadeia
- 20,061
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“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land,
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.”
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—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
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Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
The people we had killed and never seen.”
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