Piraeus

Piraeus is a locality in , . Piraeus is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .
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  • Type: Locality with 164,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Athens, Greece
  • Also known as: “Municipality of Pireas” and “Piraeus Municipality”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Railway Museum Athens and Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.

Museum
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The Railway Museum of Athens, Greece, was founded by the Hellenic Railways Organisation in 1978. It was located at 4 Siokou Street in , but the collection has since been moved to the former MPR Depot site in Lefka, Piraeus in 2019 (not to be confused with the .

Museum
The is a museum in , a port city within the Athens urban area in . It contains mainly sculptures, discovered in Piraeus and in the area of the from Bronze Age to Roman times.

Theater building
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The Piraeus Municipal Theatre is a neoclassical building built on plans by the architect Ioannis Lazarimos and was opened on 9 April 1895. The theatre has a 600-seat capacity and is located in the centremost place of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Piraeus and Palaio Faliro.

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The is the ancient port of , and still functions as the chief exit point from the city by sea, for destinations among the Aegean Islands and elsewhere in the east Mediterranean.

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is a municipality in on the Saronic Gulf coast. It is part of the South Suburbs of .

Suburb
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, known before 1940 as Kokkinia, is a town and a suburb of the agglomeration, in the southwestern part of the Athens urban area, . Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Rentis in the regional unit of Piraeus, and it is the seat and a municipal unit of the municipality.

Piraeus

Latitude
37.947° or 37° 56′ 49″ north
Longitude
23.645° or 23° 38′ 42″ east
Population
164,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
8G95WJWW+R2
Geo­Names ID
8133777
Wiki­data ID
Q12875755
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Welsh—“Piraeus” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Пірэй”
  • Catalan: “Municipalitat del Pireu”
  • Cebuano: “Dimos Piraeus”
  • Czech: “Pireus”
  • Dutch: “Piraeus”
  • French: “dème du Pirée”
  • French: “Dème du Pirée”
  • French: “Pireas”
  • German: “Pireas”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Πειραιά”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Πειραιώς”
  • Greek: “Πειραιώς”
  • Ido: “Municipo Pireus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pireus”
  • Polish: “Pireus”
  • Russian: “община Пирей”
  • Russian: “Пирей”
  • Slovak: “Pireus”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Pireas”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Pirej”
  • Slovenian: “Pireas”
  • Swedish: “Dimos Piraeus”
  • Turkish: “Pire belediyesi”
  • Ukrainian: “ном Пірей”
  • Ukrainian: “Пірей (ном)”
  • Vietnamese: “Pireas”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Piraeus”

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