Kerameikos
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Kerameikos (, ) also known by its Latinized form Ceramicus, is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River. It was the potters' quarter of the city, from which the English word "ceramic" is derived, and was also the site of an important cemetery and numerous funerary sculptures erected along the Sacred Way, a road from Athens to Eleusis.
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- Kerameikos
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- Κεραμεικός
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- el
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- Neighborhood
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- Kerameikos Cemetery on July 28, 2019.jpg
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- Kerameikos in Athens.svg
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- Location within Athens
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- Greece
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- Attica
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- Athens
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- 105 53
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- 210
- Settlement.website
- www.cityofathens.gr
via Wikipedia infobox
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Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού | Κεραμεικός
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Kerameikos (, ) also known by its Latinized form Ceramicus, is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River. It was the potters' quarter of the city, from which the English word "ceramic" is derived, and was also the site of an important cemetery and numerous funerary sculptures erected along the Sacred Way, a road from Athens to Eleusis.
== History and description ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kerameikos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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