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Attica

Region of Greece comprising Athens and the district around it; area 3,381 sq km/1,305 sq mi; population (2003 est) 3,812,000. It is renowned for its language, art, and philosophical thought in Classical times, when Athens, Piraeus, and Eleusis were its major towns. It is a prefecture of modern Greece, with Athens as its capital.

Attica

Town in Wyoming County, west New York, USA; population (1990) 7,400. It is situated 19 km/12 mi southwest of Batavia. Settled in 1804, it now has a variety of light manufacturing plants and dairy farms. Attica State Prison (1931) was the site in 1971 of a prisoner uprising and bloody police counterattack.



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242: For Helen had been previously carried off by Theseus, and it was in consequence of this earlier rape that Aphidna, a town in Attica, was sacked and Castor was wounded in the right thigh by Aphidnus who was king at that time.
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This shows what sort of a country modern Attica is--a community of questionable characters.
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Here she often talked with her son about his father, and said that he was called Aegeus, and that he was a great king, and ruled over Attica, and dwelt at Athens, which was as famous a city as any in the world.
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