What country is Athens? What is the basic situation?

Athens is the capital of Greece, located at the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula. Athens is one of the oldest cities in Europe and the world, and its history can be traced back to more than 3000 years ago.

In BC 1000, Athens became the core city of ancient Greece. From the end of the 9th century BC to the beginning of the 8th century BC, luxurious aristocratic tombs appeared in Athens, and the production of iron and bronze also developed rapidly, reaching the level of establishing a city-state as an early slave state.

Athens is located in the central plain of Attica, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side. San Ronicke Bay is in the southwest, 8 kilometers away from Farley Bay in the Aegean Sea, with Mount Egaliud in the west, Mount Panisa in the north, Mount Pentree in the northeast and Mount Imitos in the east.

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Athens is the economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural center of Greece. Athens is also one of the commercial centers of the European Union. Besides olives, Athens is also rich in high-quality marble. Because of its geographical location, Athens had to import wheat long ago; Thus forcing Athens to engage in maritime trade.

Raninga, Egypt, Italy (especially Great Greece and Sicily) and the surrounding areas of the Black Sea provided Athens with wheat. Other imported products include papyrus, spices, textiles, metals, shipbuilding materials such as wood, flax and asphalt, and grains. Greek cities export wine, pottery and olive oil.

Athens sells marble mined from Pentelli, which is very famous in the Greek world; In addition, one of the sources of wealth of ancient Athenians was their industrial olive oil. As a necessary bath cleaning product at that time, the olive oil produced in Athens needed to import spices from Africa to neutralize the pungent smell of olive oil itself.

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