Piraeus Prefecture
Piraeus Prefecture was one of the prefectures of Greece. Created in 1964 as a separate Prefecture and after the dissolution of the prefecture in 1972 was one of the 4 prefectures of Attica prefecture, and from 1994, part of the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: prefecture of Greece with 524,000 residents
- Description: former prefecture of Greece
- Also known as: “Nomos Piraios” and “Piraiévs”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Poros and Megali Magoula.
Archaeological Museum of Poros
Museum
Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Archaeological Museum of Poros is a museum located on Koryzis Square in Poros, Greece. The museum was built in the 1960s on a plot of land donated by the Koryzis family.
Megali Magoula
Archaeological site
Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Megali Magoula is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Poros and Galatas.
Poros
Poros is a green island situated in the Saronic Gulf, 59 km from the Piraeus harbour of Athens. It has an area of 33 km², a shoreline of 42 km, and a population of about 3,650.
Galatas
Galatas is a town located in the eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is the sister town of Poros.Methana
Methana is located in Greece, with highly interesting of archaeological monuments, Byzantine churches, lovely villages and imposing a "dormant" volcano.
Piraeus Prefecture
- Location: Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Piraeus Prefecture” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيرايوس”
- Armenian: “Պիրեյ”
- Belarusian: “Ном Пірэй”
- Belarusian: “Пірэй”
- Bulgarian: “Пирея”
- Catalan: “prefectura del Pireu”
- Catalan: “Prefectura del Pireu”
- Cebuano: “Nomós Piraiós”
- Chinese: “比雷埃夫斯州”
- Croatian: “Prefektura Pirej”
- Dutch: “Piraeus”
- Finnish: “Pireuksen lääni”
- Finnish: “Pireuksen prefektuuri”
- French: “Nomarchie du Pirée”
- French: “Nome du Piree”
- French: “Nome du Pirée”
- Georgian: “პირეი”
- Georgian: “პირეის ნომი”
- German: “Piräus”
- Greek: “Νομαρχία Πειραιά”
- Greek: “Νομαρχία Πειραιώς”
- Greek: “Νομός Πειραιά”
- Greek: “Νομός Περαία (1964-1972) Νομαρχία Πειραιά (1972-2010)”
- Italian: “Pireo”
- Italian: “Prefettura del Pireo”
- Korean: “피레아스 현”
- Korean: “피레아스현”
- Lithuanian: “Pirėjaus nomas”
- Lithuanian: “Pirėjo nomas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Piraeus prefektur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pireàs”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pireus prefektur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pireus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Prefekturet Piraeus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Prefekturet Pireus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pireus prefektur”
- Norwegian: “Pireus”
- Polish: “Nomarchia Pireus”
- Polish: “Nomos Pireus”
- Polish: “Pireus”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Pireu”
- Russian: “Пирей”
- Serbian: “Prefektura Pirej”
- Serbian: “Префектура Пиреј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Pirej”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Pirej”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de El Pireo”
- Spanish: “prefectura de Perea”
- Spanish: “prefectura del Pirea”
- Spanish: “Prefectura del Pireo”
- Swedish: “Nomós Piraiós”
- Turkish: “Pire (il)”
- Turkish: “Pire”
- Ukrainian: “Пірей”
- Urdu: “پیرایوس پریفیکچر”
- Western Armenian: “Փիրէայի նահանգապետութիւն”
- Western Armenian: “Փիրէայի Շրջանային Միաւոր”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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