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Evzonen, the former royal Guard
No doubt! You will find some more detailed descriptions of the city history in your pocket guide and you also got all these facts at school (but forgot them :-))! So let me give you here just an overview in the following tables. It would be of use in connection with our virtual tour to some historical sites.
| Around 3000 BC | Settlements around the Acropolis |
| In 2000-1600 BC | Settlements by Ionians (Pelasgians) |
| 1600-1200 BC | Mycenae, 12 cities of Attica, palace on the Acropolis |
| 1200-900 BC | Dorian invasion (culture break), but not in Attica |
| 900-700 BC | Geometrical time (vase sample), 776 first Olympiads, colonization beginning |
| 700-570 BC | Archaic time (black-figured paintings), 620 Drakons legislation, 594 Solon |
| 570-510 BC | Tyrant's time, 566 big Panathenea, 530 red-figured paintings |
| 510-490 BC | Tyrant's overthrow, reforms of Kleisthenes |
| 490-479 BC | 490 Marathon (Miltiades), 483 Themistokles (athenian navy), 480 salamis, erection of the athenian walls |
| 478-460 BC | sea union of Attica, 471 Themistokles´/461 Kimons´ Ostracism, Aischylos |
| 460-430 BC | Pericles´ age, 454 Parthenon, 437 Propylea, 432 Nike temple, Sophokles, Euripides |
| 431-404 BC | Peloponnesian war, Aristophanes, defeat of Athens |
| 400-330 BC | Rhetoricians and philosophers, 399 Socrates´ death, Praxiteles, Skopas, 338 Macedonian's victories |
| 330-30 BC | Hellenism, 146 Roman rule, 86 demolition of Athens, Epikur, stoics |
| 30 BC-400 AD | Roman time, 125 Hadrian´s extension, 393 last Olympiad, Herulians-/Goths-invasion in Athens |
| 400 AD-1460 AD | Byzantium, 1018 byz. church style, 1200-1300 Franconians, 1458 conquests by the Turks |
And just for fun the historical data of the newer time now:
| 1460-1821 AD | Turk's rule, begin of the revolution |
| At 1821-1829 AD | Fight for freedom |
| At 1830 AD | Modern Greek State, prince Otto of Bavaria is proclaimed to the king. |
| At 1834 AD | King Otto I raises Athens to the capital |
| At 1843 AD | Proclamation of the constitutional monarchy |
| At 1862 AD | King Otto is set down |
| At 1864 AD | Prince Wilhelm Georg of Glücksgurg is chosen the new king |
| At 1911 - 1913 AD | Balcan wars. Incorporation of Epiros, Macedonia, Samos and Crete. |
| At 1923 AD | The "Asia Minor disaster" during the war against Turkey. Population-resettlement |
| At 1936 AD | Putsch by general Metaxas, dictatorship |
| At 1944 - 1949 AD | Civil war against the communist rebels |
| At 1967 - 1973 AD | Putsch by general Papadopoulos, dictatorship, king Konstantin I leaves Greece |
| At 1973 AD - today | New Greek republic |
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