Athens

“In 1834 the city had only 4000 people, because it was after the war people had left. Just in 60 years when the first Olympic Games were held in Athens, the population was more than a 100,000.”

“Because most of the history of Greece was written by Athenians, or by people who were living in Athens, or they were writing about. Athens. It's an Athenocentric perspective that we get about ancient Greek history.”

“Yeah, we had situations like this, but they were just for a couple of days, confined in a very small area of the city.”

“Well, we have to go back to the fourth millennium, about 3400 BC, when the, we have the first inhabitants who settled on the Acropolis and in the surrounding plain, and from, since that time, the city has a continuous habitation, so you say that the city has a…”

“In the census of the 16th century, it was, it had a population of 17,000 people, which makes it the fourth largest city of the Ottoman Empire in in Europe.”

“By that time, the city had about 700,000 people. But within one year, a quarter of a million were added to the population.”

“About five million people, although those who are registered are about four million. It just happens that during the census people leave and go back to their villages or towns, because they believe that if they're registered there, the government will have a d…”

“If we were wise and we have kept Athens as it was in the sixties, we would have been a city as beautiful as Prague, even more beautiful.”