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- Instance of
- neighborhood
- Part of
- Athens
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Athens Municipality
- Official website
- www.cityofathens.gr
- Image
- RueGizi.jpg
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- native label
- Γκύζη
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Gyzi ( ) is a neighbourhood of Athens, Greece.
==Etymology== The area was named around 1925 after famous painter Nikolaos Gyzis. By all rights, the neighbourhood should have been called Γύζη (). However, because he signed his paintings using the Latin alphabet (as he lived in Germany for a time period), this was reabsorbed into the Greek language with the current spelling and pronunciation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gyzi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.