Athens, Georgia (usa)

Athens, Georgia

Athens, Georgia ranks 2,605th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Conyers, Georgia, Palazzo Carignano, and Lugo, Emilia-Romagna. Memorable people born in Athens, Georgia include Kim Basinger, Jeff Daniels, and Alex Kendrick. Memorable people who died in Athens, Georgia include Dean Rusk, Eugene Odum, and Crawford Long. Athens, Georgia has been the birth place of many actors and film directors and the death place of many physicians and politicians. Athens, Georgia is located in United States.

Athens is a consolidated city-county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Downtown Athens lies about 70 miles (110 km) northeast of downtown Atlanta. The University of Georgia, the state's flagship public university and an R1 research institution, is in Athens and contributed to its initial growth. In 1991, after a vote the preceding year, the original City of Athens abandoned its charter to form a unified government with Clarke County, referred to jointly as Athens–Clarke County where it is the county seat. Read more on Wikipedia