Atlantic Ocean

One of the great subdivisions of the sea, lying between America on the w., and Europe and Africa IMG:content-0358.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0359.png:[blocks in formation] Athens. 396, subjected by the Turks 1444; suffered greatly during war of independence 1821-27, and became the capital of Greece 1833. Pop., 1890, 107,251, and of its port and suburb, Piræus, 34,327. Its university, founded 1837, after German models, has 4 faculties with 60 teachers, ab. 1,500 students, and a library of 130.000 vols.