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Piraeus

The Piraeus 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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  • Type: City with 164,000 residents
  • Description: city and port of Attica region, Greece
  • Also known as: “Athens port”, “Peiraiá”, “Peiraievs”, and “Piréefs”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Railway Museum Athens and Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.

Museum
Photo: Sv1xv, CC0.
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 Piraeus, 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
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Piraeus.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nikaia and Keratsini.

Suburb
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, known before 1940 as Kokkinia, is a town and a suburb of the Piraeus 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.

Suburb
is a suburban town in the western part of the Piraeus regional unit, which in turn is a part of the Athens Urban Area. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality , of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.

Suburb
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is a coastal town, a suburb and a former municipality in the southwestern part of the Piraeus regional unit in the Athens Urban Area. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality , of which it is a municipal unit.

Piraeus

Latitude
37.9432° or 37° 56′ 35″ north
Longitude
23.6471° or 23° 38′ 49″ east
Population
164,000
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
Inception
November 11th, 1835
United Nations Location Code
GR PIR
Open location code
8G95WJVW+7R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154089041
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
255274
Wiki­data ID
Q58976
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Piraeus” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Pireu”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Πειραιεύς”
  • Arabic: “بيرايوس”
  • Aragonese: “Peiraiás”
  • Aragonese: “Piraeus”
  • Armenian: “Պիրեյոս”
  • Asturian: “El Piréu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pirey”
  • Bashkir: “Пирей”
  • Basque: “Piraeus”
  • Basque: “Pireo”
  • Belarusian: “Пірэй”
  • Bengali: “পিরেয়াস”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиреас”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиреос”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиреус”
  • Bulgarian: “Пирея”
  • Catalan: “el Pireu”
  • Catalan: “El Pireu”
  • Catalan: “Pireu”
  • Cebuano: “Piraeus”
  • Chechen: “Пирей”
  • Chinese: “比雷埃夫斯”
  • Croatian: “Pirej”
  • Czech: “Piraeus”
  • Czech: “Pireás”
  • Czech: “Pireos”
  • Czech: “Pireus”
  • Danish: “Piraeus”
  • Danish: “Piræus”
  • Dutch: “Piraeus”
  • Dutch: “Pireas”
  • Dutch: “Pireus”
  • Dutch: “Porto Leone”
  • Esperanto: “Pireo”
  • Estonian: “Pireus”
  • Finnish: “Peiraieus”
  • Finnish: “Piraeus”
  • Finnish: “Piraievs”
  • Finnish: “Pireus”
  • French: “Le Piree”
  • French: “Le Pirée”
  • French: “Pirée”
  • Galician: “O Pireo”
  • Galician: “Pireo”
  • Georgian: “პირეოსი”
  • German: “Peiraieus”
  • German: “Piräás”
  • German: “Piraeus”
  • German: “Piräeus”
  • German: “Piräus”
  • German: “Pireas”
  • German: “Pireás”
  • German: “Pireus”
  • Greek: “Peiraiás”
  • Greek: “Peiraiéfs”
  • Greek: “Λιμήν Αθηνών”
  • Greek: “Πειραιάς”
  • Greek: “Πειραιεύς” (historical)
  • Greek: “Πόρτο Δράκο”
  • Greek: “Πόρτο Λεόνε”
  • Greek: “Πόρτο της Αθήνας”
  • Gujarati: “પિરાઈસ”
  • Hebrew: “פיראוס”
  • Hindi: “पिरेयुस”
  • Hungarian: “Pireusz”
  • Ido: “Pireus”
  • Indonesian: “Piraeus”
  • Irish: “Piréas”
  • Italian: “Il Pireo”
  • Italian: “Pireo”
  • Japanese: “ピラエウス”
  • Japanese: “ピレアス”
  • Japanese: “ピレウス”
  • Japanese: “ピレエウス”
  • Japanese: “ピレエフス”
  • Japanese: “ピレオ”
  • Japanese: “ペイライエウス”
  • Japanese: “ペイラエウス港”
  • Javanese: “Piraeus”
  • Kannada: “ಪರೆಯುಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಪಿರಾಯಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Пирей”
  • Korean: “페이라이에우스”
  • Korean: “피라이우스”
  • Korean: “피레아스”
  • Korean: “피레에프스”
  • Korean: “피레오스”
  • Korean: “피레우스”
  • Latin: “Piraeus”
  • Latvian: “Peiraeus”
  • Latvian: “Pireja”
  • Latvian: “Πειραιάς”
  • Limburgan: “Piraeus”
  • Limburgan: “Pireas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pirėjas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pirėjus”
  • Lombard: “El Piree”
  • Lombard: “Pireo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Piräus”
  • Macedonian: “Пиреј”
  • Malay: “Piraeus”
  • Maltese: “Piraeus”
  • Marathi: “पीरेअस”
  • Moksha: “Пирэ‎й”
  • Mongolian: “Пирей”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Peiraeus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Peiraieus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Piraeus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pireas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pireás”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pireàs”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pireus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peiraias”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peiraieus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piraeus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pireus”
  • Norwegian: “Pireus”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lo Pirèu”
  • Ossetian: “Пирей”
  • Persian: “پیرئوس”
  • Persian: “پیره”
  • Polish: “Pireus”
  • Pontic: “Πειραιάς”
  • Portuguese: “Piraeus”
  • Portuguese: “Pireu”
  • Portuguese: “Pireus”
  • Pushto: “پیرایوس”
  • Romanian: “Peiraeus”
  • Romanian: “Peiraiefs”
  • Romanian: “Piraeus”
  • Romanian: “Pireas”
  • Romanian: “Pireu”
  • Romanian: “Pireus”
  • Russian: “Пирей”
  • Samogitian: “Piraeus”
  • Samogitian: “Pirėjas”
  • Samogitian: “Piriejos”
  • Scots: “Piraeus”
  • Scots: “Πειραιάς”
  • Serbian: “Piraeus”
  • Serbian: “Pirej”
  • Serbian: “Πειραιάς”
  • Serbian: “Пиреј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pirej”
  • Silesian: “Pireus”
  • Sinhala: “පයිරියස්”
  • Slovak: “Pireus”
  • Slovenian: “atensko pristanišče”
  • Slovenian: “Pirej”
  • Spanish: “El Pireo”
  • Spanish: “Piraievs”
  • Spanish: “Piraiévs”
  • Spanish: “Pireo”
  • Spanish: “Puerto de El Pireo”
  • Swedish: “Peiraieus”
  • Swedish: “Piraeus”
  • Swedish: “Pireus”
  • Swiss German: “Piräus”
  • Tamil: “பிரேயஸ்”
  • Telugu: “పిర్యాయుస్”
  • Thai: “Peiraieus”
  • Thai: “Peiraieús”
  • Thai: “Piraeus”
  • Thai: “Piraieus”
  • Thai: “Piraievs”
  • Thai: “พีเรอัส”
  • Thai: “พีเรเอฟส์”
  • Thai: “ไพรีอัส”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Piräus”
  • Turkish: “Piraeus”
  • Turkish: “Pire”
  • Ukrainian: “Пірей”
  • Urdu: “پیرایوس”
  • Uzbek: “Pirey (Gretsiya)”
  • Uzbek: “Pirey”
  • Venetian: “Il Pireo”
  • Veps: “Pirei”
  • Vietnamese: “Piraeus”
  • Volapük: “Pireas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Piraeus”
  • Welsh: “Piraeus”
  • Western Armenian: “Բիրէա”
  • Western Armenian: “Փիրէա”
  • Wu Chinese: “比雷埃夫斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “比雷埃夫斯”
  • “Piriejos”

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