To us it's the space at the top of a house; in Ancient Greece it was an architectural order named for Athens' region
[DOC] [TLE] Greek architectural orders | A beginner's guide to ancient Greece ... [PAR] Ionic orderAs its names suggests, the Ionic order originated in Ionia, a coastal 
region of central Anatoliatoday Turkeywhere a number of ancient Greek ... 
such as Kedleston Hall, an English country house in Kedleston, Derbyshire.