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Athinai 1963
Athinai can refer to: *The English transliteration of Αθήναι , a form of the Greek name for the city of Athens. * SS ''Athinai'' (1908), a ship of Greek registry that burned and sank in the Atlantic on 20 September 1915. * SS ''Athinai'' (1932), a ship of Greek registry acquired from the Grace Line in 1961 and scrapped in 1989. {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh List of urban areas in the European Union, largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful Greek city-state, city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Platonic Academy, Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum (classical), Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of civilization, cradle of Western culture, Western civilization and the democracy#History, birthplace of democracy, larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Athinai (1908)
SS ''Athinai'' was a Greek Passenger ship, passenger steamship that was built in England in 1908 and sank in the North Atlantic in 1915. She was built to be a transatlantic ocean liner, but she served also as a Troopship, troop ship. ''Athinai'' sank as the result of a fire in one of her cargo holds, which seemed to have been caused deliberately. In 1916 a US court convicted three German Empire, German citizens of causing the fire. Hellenic Transatlantic Steam Navigation Company In 1907 DG Moraitis founded the Hellenic Transatlantic Line. It operated a new liner, ''SS Themistocles (1907), Moraitis'', that John Priestman and Company had built in Sunderland, England. Hellenic Transatlantic Line went bankrupt in 1908. The Hellenic Transatlantic Steam Navigation Company was founded to take over its ships and services. The new company renamed ''Moraitis'' as ''Themistocles'', and took delivery of the slightly larger ''Athinai'' after she was completed in October 1908. Building Sir R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
