Plaka
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- For other locations named Plaka, see Plaka (disambiguation)
Pláka (Greek: Πλάκα) is the old historical neighbourhood of Athens, Greece just under the Acropolis. with labyrinthine streets, many restaurants and souvenir stores. It is visited by many tourists around the year.
Museums in Plaka include the new Jewish museum, the Greek Folk Art Museum and the Frissiras Museum. Adrianou Street is the oldest street in Athens still in use, and is now home to many tourist shops.
A reasonable explanation regarding the meaning and origin of the name of the place is that it comes from the word pliaka, meaning old, which was used by the Albanian soldiers in the Ottoman service to describe the place, who settled here later, in the 16th Century.
[edit] Other references
- Pláka of Litochoro, Pieria is an extended area of villas, hotels and beach resorts, east of Mount Olympus, northern Greece
- Plaka is a village in Chania Prefecture, Crete.
- Plaka is the chief town in Milos, a Greek island in the Cyclades group.
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