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The term designates since antiquity the inland portion of the Attic peninsula. The term acquired a technical meaning with the reforms of
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The division of Attica into urban (pink), inland (green), and coastal (blue) zones by Cleisthenes
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and to the south by the mountains of south Attica (Merenta,
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In modern usage, the term refers to the central portion of
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Index

Mesogaea
Greek
Attica
Greece
Cleisthenes
Attic tribes
trittyes
asty
paralia
Classical period
demoi
East Attica
Mount Hymettus
Mount Penteli
Panio
el
Laureotic Olympus
Aegean Sea
Petalioi Gulf
Middle Ages
Albanian
Arvanite
Spata
Liopesi
Kallikratis reform
Gerakas
Glyka Nera
Anthousa
Pallini
Paiania

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