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Piraeus has a long recorded history, dating back to ancient Greece. The city was founded in the early 5th century BC, when plans to make it the new port of Athens were implemented: A prototype harbour was constructed, which resulted in concentrating in one location all the import and transit trade of Athens, along with the navy's base. [4]
Map of Piraeus, showing the grid plan of the city. The Archaeological site of Terpsithea Square is an archaeological site which formed part of the urban fabric of the ancient settlement of Piraeus located in Attica, Greece
Until the 3rd millennium BC, Piraeus was a rocky island connected to the mainland by a low-lying stretch of land that was flooded with sea water most of the year. It was then that the area was increasingly silted and flooding ceased, thus permanently connecting Piraeus to Attica and forming its ports, the main port of Cantharus and the two smaller of Zea and Munichia.
Hippodamus planned the street pattern of Piraeus using the scheme of Pythagoras comprising simple mathematical proportions to create city blocks. These formed the building plots and streets of the Piraeus port of ancient Greece. Hippodamus divided Piraeus into three parts: the commercial harbor, the naval station, the sacred space and the ...
The Piraeus and the Long Walls of Athens Ancient Athens. Although long walls were built at several locations in ancient Greece, notably Corinth and Megara, [1] the term Long Walls (Ancient Greek: Μακρὰ Τείχη [makra tei̯kʰɛː]) generally refers to the walls that connected Athens' main city to its ports at Piraeus and Phaleron.
An indication of the geographical diversity of the prefecture was the stark difference in population density between its seven mainland municipalities in the Athens urban area, which have 9,244.2 inhabitants/km 2, and its detached outlying areas, which average only 85.83 inhabitants/km 2 (and most of these on Salamis Island, at 395.40/km 2 ...
The old building of the museum (330 m 2 [1]), which is currently used as a storage room, was built in 1935. [3] The new two-store building, which was inaugurated in 1981, [3] covers a total area of total 1.394 m 2.
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