For the butterfly genus, see Acropolis (genus). A butterfly is an Insect of the order Lepidoptera. Like all Lepidoptera butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic Acropolis is a Butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.

For the Microsoft application framework, see Microsoft codename "Acropolis". Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer In Computer programming, an application framework is a Software framework that is used to implement the standard structure of an application for a Microsoft Codename Acropolis, available as a CTP release is a set of tools and components that can be used to build.

For the most famous example of an Acropolis, see Acropolis of Athens. The Acropolis of Athens is the best known Acropolis (high city The "Sacred Rock" in the world

The Acropolis of Athens

Acropolis (Gr. acro, high + polis, city, pl. acropoleis) literally means a high city. For purposes of defense, early settlers naturally chose elevated ground, frequently a hill with precipitous sides. In many parts of the world, these early citadels became the nuclei of large cities, which grew up on the surrounding lower ground, such as modern Rome. A citadel is a fortress for protecting a Town, sometimes incorporating a Castle. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2

The word Acropolis, although Greek in origin and associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth (with its Acrocorinth), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including (Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's Argos ( Greek: Ἄργος, Árgos ˈaɾɣos is a city in Greece in the Peloponnese near Nafplio, which was its historic harbor Thebes ( Classic Greek Θῆβαι, Mod Θήβα) is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range which divides Corinth, or Korinth ( Greek Κόρινθος ( is a city in Greece. Acrocorinth (Ακροκόρινθος the Acropolis of Ancient Corinth, is a monolithic rock overseeing the ancient city of Corinth Greece. Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the ARTICLE TEXT BEGINS AFTER THESE COMMENTS - PLEASE READ 1 Please do not edit the lead without reading Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow.

The most famous example is the Acropolis of Athens,^[1] which, by reason of its historical associations and the several famous buildings erected upon it (most notably the Parthenon), is known without qualification as the Acropolis. The Parthenon ( Ancient Greek:) is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena, built in the 5th century BC on the Athenian Acropolis Although originating in the mainland of Greece, use of the acropolis model quickly spread to Greek colonies such as the Dorian Lato on Crete during the Archaic Period. The Dorians or Dorian Greeks ( Greek:, Dōrieis singular, Dōrieus were Lato ( Ancient Greek:) was an ancient city of Crete, the ruins of which are located approximately 3 km from the small town of Kritsa. Crete ( Greek: Κρήτη transliteration: Krētē, modern transliteration Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the

Because of its classical Greco-Roman style, the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano's Great Stone Church in California, United States has been called the "American Acropolis". Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded on All Saints Day November 1 1776 by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean.

Other parts of the world developed other names for the high citadel or alcázar, which often reinforced a naturally strong site. Alcazar (disambiguation An alcázar is a Spanish Castle, from the Arabic word القصر al qasr meaning In Central Italy, many small rural communes still cluster at the base of a fortified habitation known as La Rocca of the commune. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic Administrative division of both provinces and regions and may be properly approximated in

The term acropolis is also used to describe the central complex of overlapping structures, such as plazas and pyramids, in many Mayan cities, including Tikal and Copán. The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican Civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the Pre-Columbian Americas Tikal (or Tik’al, according to the more current orthography is the largest of the ancient ruined cities of the Mayan civilization. The Pre-Columbian city today known as Copán is a locale in extreme western Honduras, in the Copán Department, near to the Guatemalan border

A view of Athens from the Acropolis

References

1. ^ World Heritage: Acropolis, Athens

External links

• The Acropolis of Athens (Greek Government website)
• The Acropolis Restoration Project (Greek Government website)
• The Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles
• Marbles Reunited - The British Campaign to Return the Parthenon Marbles to Athens
• Acropolis of Athens — AcropolisofAthens.gr — one monument, one heritage
• UNESCO World Heritage Centre — Acropolis, Athens
• Acropolis Friends