Acharnes

Acharnes is a suburb of Athens, Attica, Greece. With 106,943 population 2011 census, it's far the most populous municipality in East Attica. It is part of the Athens Urban location. Acharnes was named after the deme Acharnae Ancient, a subdivision of Athens in classical antiquity. The Athenian playwright Aristophanes characterised the population of Acharnae as peasants in his play “The Acharnians”. Acharnes suffered vast damage from the 1999 Athens earthquake, being very near the epicenter.

The municipality Acharnes was fashioned at the 2011 neighborhood government reform with the aid of the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that have become municipal units. The Folk Art Museum of Acharnes is a museum in Acharnes, a northern suburb of Athens, Greece. It became based in 1977 with the aid of the neighborhood Greek Mountaineering Society, which additionally fashioned the Historical and Folklore Association in 1981, to which it bequeathed the museum in 1982. The archaeological a part of the gathering changed into then separated from the historic and folklore material and turned into given to the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.