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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Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“Satire is born of the cities it denounces.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: “Here,” he said, “are the walls of the city,” meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)