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Athens is a city and the county seat of Henderson County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2020 census , the city population was 12,857. [7] The city has called itself the " Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World."
Henderson County Peace Officers Association monument. Henderson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 82,150. [1] The county seat is Athens. [2] The county is named in honor of James Pinckney Henderson, the first attorney general of the Republic of Texas, and secretary of state for the republic ...
Greece 1822–1827, 1832–present. Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the foundations of Western ...
Athens, Greece. In one of his surviving fragments (fragment 76), the Greek lyricist poet Pindar wrote [1] of Athens: "City of light, with thy violet crown, beloved of the poets, thou art the bulwark of Greece." The climate of Attica is characterised by low humidity and a high percentage of dust in the air, which make sunsets display hues of ...
Sparta [1] was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon ( Λακεδαίμων, Lakedaímōn ), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in the Eurotas valley of Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. [2] Around 650 BC, it rose to ...
Llano, Texas. / 30.75083°N 98.68000°W / 30.75083; -98.68000. Llano ( / ˈlænoʊ / LAN-oh) is a city in Llano County, Texas, United States. As of 2010, the city population was 3,232. It is the county seat of Llano County. [5] Llano has been described as the " deer capital of Texas", with the single highest density of white-tailed deer ...
48-14224 [3] GNIS feature ID. 1332643 [2] Website. www .chandlertx .com. Chandler is a city in Henderson County, Texas, United States, at the northern end of Lake Palestine. Its population was 3,275 at the 2020 census, [4] up from 2,734 at the 2010 census. An American flag display at Winchester Park in Chandler.
Emory is a city in Rains County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,239 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Rains County. [5] Previously known as Springville, the city and county are named after Emory Rains, who was a legislator from the area. Rains was the author of the Homestead Law of Texas, which was later used as a model ...