User talk:Antonis Christofides

Efharisto poli for your corrections on Athens. I tried to find correct information on Athens local government, but all i could find was Athens, Georgia and Athens, Ohio.

I'm curious that the link to the Greek wikipedia for Athens leads to an article Αθηνα, and not to Αθηναι - my Greek is not very good but I thought Αθηναι was the spelling. Adam 12:55, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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Athinai is the ancient Greek name of the city; Athina is the modern Greek name. Athinai was also the name of the city in Katharevousa, an ugly mix of old and modern Greek that was the official language of Greece until 30 years ago (more on this in Greek_language). Today everyone calls it and writes it Athina. The old name is still found in some old signs. It would thus be more accurate if the article, in its beginning, mentioned Athina rather than Athinai as the Greek name. It probably needs some disambiguation though, because non-Greek people may be not be aware of how different old Greek is from modern.