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Isaias mansion. Patision Street (Greek: Οδός Πατησίων) is one of the major streets in central Athens, Greece.Though it is known as Patision, its name for its stretch between Panepistimiou Street and Amerikis Square, was changed to 28 October Street, commemorating the day in 1940 that the Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas refused the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's ultimatum that ...
Exarcheia is the site of a large migrant and refugee community. The overcrowding and abuse within Greek refugee camps has propelled a movement of squatting within Athens and across Greece. There are more than a dozen squats in Athens, primarily centered in Exarcheia, serving as housing, healthcare, and social centers for refugees, migrants, or ...
The historical Patission Street campus in a postcard of 1900. The main facade of the Averof building today. In 1873 it moved to its new campus in Patission Street and was known as Metsovion Polytechnion (Metsovian Polytechnic) after the birthplace of the benefactors who financed construction of this campus. Though the Patission Street campus ...
This article is a list of every street in municipality (corresponding within Center of Athens) of Athens, Greece: Red background Includes parts that are not within the municipality of Athens Street Names
Region. Attica. City. Athens. Website. www.cityofathens.gr. Patisia or Patissia ( Greek: Πατήσια) is a neighbourhood of Athens, Greece. It is split in two neighbourhoods: Ano Patisia (Upper Patisia) and Kato Patisia (Lower Patisia). The main streets of Patisia are Patision Av. and Acharnon Av .
Alexandras Avenue. Alexandra's Avenue ( Greek: Λεωφόρος Αλεξάνδρας Leoforos Alexandras) is a main east–west thoroughfare running from Patission Street /28 October Street and Kifissias Avenue in the northern part of the center of Athens, Greece. It is named after Princess Alexandra of Greece, later Grand Duchess Alexandra ...
The old gate. The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred in November 1973 as a massive student demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.It began on 14 November 1973, escalated to an open anti-junta revolt, and ended in bloodshed in the early morning of 17 November after a series of events starting with a tank crashing through the gates of the Athens Polytechnic.
Panepistimiou street facing towards Syntagma square.On the left the Propylaea and the main building of the Academy of Athens.. Panepistimiou Street (Greek: Οδός Πανεπιστημίου, "University Street", named after the University of Athens, the central building of which is on the upper corner) is a major street in Athens that has run one way for non-transit vehicles since 2002 from ...