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Dominated to this day by the sprawling white marble complex of the Acropolis, Athens is a city which is immensely and rightly pleased with its recent. For an interval of around three hundreds of years, the polis of Athens stood, if not in a position of unchallenged supremacy one of the locations of Hellas, then at least among its three most important polities. Its fledgling Empire, though small by the requirements later established by Alexander or the Romans, or even by those of its historical foe Persia, nonetheless encompassed locations as considerably afield as Asia Slight and Southern Italy, a amazing reality considering such extension was achieved by the inhabitants of an individual city and its own immediate surroundings, alternatively than by a whole nation.
