Athens has been continuously inhabited for at least 3,000 years. By the end of Late Antiquity the as the capital of the independent Greek state, and in 1896 hosted the firstmodern Olympic Games.. from the 1950s and 1960s, that the population of the city exploded, and Athens experienced a gradual expansion in all directions.
The city of Athens contains avariety of different architectural styles, ranging from Greco-Roman, Neo-Classical, to modern. Many of the most prominent buildings of the city are either Greco-Roman or neo-classical in style. Someof the neo-classical buildings to be found are public buildings erected during the mid-nineteenth century under the guidance of Theophil Freiherr von Hansen:
Athens has an officialpopulation of 745,514 and of 3.2 million including the suburbs. The actual population, however, is believed to be higher, because during census-taking (carried out once every 10 years) some Athenianresidents travel back to their birthplaces, and register as local citizens there.
|Year |City population |Urban population |Metropopulation |
|1833 |4,000 |- |- |
|1870|44,500 |- |- |
|1896 |123,000 |- |-|
|1921 (Pre-Population exchange) |473,000 |- |- |
|1921 (Post-Population exchange)|718,000 |- |- |
|1971 |867,023 |- |-...