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Piraeus is now the fifth largest municipality in Greece; the city proper with its suburbs form the Piraeus urban area, which is incorporated in the Athens urban area, thus making Piraeus an integral part of the Greek capital. The port of Piraeus is now an important international port, and the largest in the country.
Eëtioneia (Ancient Greek: Ἠετιώνεια or Ἠτιώνεια) is a narrow tongue of land commanding the entrance to the deep water harbors of Piraeus-- principally Kántharos-- which were highly strategic in the time of ancient Greece. It is situated opposite Cape Alkimos; ships entering the harbor found Eëtioneia to port and Cape ...
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.
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.
Piraeus (/ p aɪ ˈ r iː ə s, p ɪ ˈ r eɪ ə s / py-REE-əs, pirr-AY-əs; Greek: Περιφερειακή ενότητα Πειραιώς, romanized: Perifereiakí enótita Peiraiós), also sometimes called Greater Piraeus [2] (as distinct from the City of Piraeus; Ευρύτερος Πειραιάς Evrýteros Peiraiás), is one of the regional units of Greece.
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Greece portal Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. ... History of Piraeus (6 P) P. People from Piraeus (7 C, 28 P) S ...
The open-air exhibition along the Ancient Greek theater in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. The museum's displayed objects are divided in sections: [2] Prehistoric collection ; Pottery collection; Bronze statues; A reconstruction of a typical Classical sanctuary (Cybele's) Classical gravestones; Large funerary monuments; Hellenistic sculptures