Athenians decided to stop the construction of the Olympieion which was related with the tyrant Peisistratus and his sons and instead used the Piraeus limestone destined for the Olympieion to build the Older Parthenon.

Many of the citizens of Attica abandoned their farms and moved inside the long walls, which connected Athens to its port of Piraeus.

The Spartans required the Athenians to raze the walls of Piraeus as well as the Long Walls which connected Athens and Piraeus ; that the Athenians should abandon their colonies, and that Athens should surrender all but twelve of their ships to the Spartans.

Despite opposition from Lysander, after the battle Pausanias the Agiad King of Sparta, arranged a settlement between the two parties which allowed the reunification of Athens and Piraeus, and the re-establishment of democratic government in Athens.

After the battle, the Agiad King of Sparta, Pausanias arranges a settlement between the two parties which allows the reunification of Athens and Piraeus, and the re-establishment of democratic government in Athens.

Five days later, Thrasybulus led his force, which had already grown to the point that he could leave 200 men at Phyle while taking 1, 000 with him, to Piraeus, the port of Athens.

The Island of Patmos has regular ferry service, which connects it to the following ports: Agathonissi Island, Mykonos Island, Paros Island, Piraeus ( the main port of Athens ), Pythagoreio & Karlovassi on Samos Island, Syros Island, Leros Island, Kotapola Island, Naxos Island, Arkoi, Lipsi Island, Symi Island and Rhodes Island.

The " Urban Planning Study for Piraeus " ( 451 BC ), which is considered to be a work of Hippodamus, formed the planning standards of that era and was used in many cities of the classical epoch.

Salamis Island is very popular for holiday and weekend visits from the Athens and Piraeus area ; its population rises to 300, 000 in peak season of which ca.

In ancient Greece, Piraeus assumed its importance with its three deep water harbours, the main port of Cantharus and the two smaller of Zea and Munichia, and gradually replaced the older and shallow Phaleron harbour, which fell into disuse.

The city's fortification was farther reinforced later by the construction of the Long Walls under Cimon and Pericles, with which Piraeus was connected to Athens.

The destruction was completed in 395 AD by the Goths under Alaric I. Piraeus was led to a long period of decline which lasted for fifteen centuries.

A number of events contributed to the development of the city ; amongst these were its ultimate declaration as the leading port of Greece, the completion of the Athens-Piraeus Railway in 1869, the industrial development of the area in the 1860s, and the creation of the Corinth Canal in 1893, all of which left Piraeus more strategically important than ever.

The establishment of the Port Committee in 1911, which controlled the works of construction and maintenance of the port, and the Piraeus Port Authority in 1930, which made a more efficient job of managing a port slowly increasing in traffic, played a catalytic role in the city's development.

Piraeus is now the third 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.

Piraeus is situated in the southwest part of the central plain of Attica, also widely known as the Attica Basin, which the Athens agglomeration ( urban area ) sprawls across.

The Battle of Salamis, just to the west of modern day Piraeus, was a major turning point in European history which saw the Athenians defeat Xerxes assuring Athens its place as the cradle of modern European culture.

The King ’ s prestige, which was based in large part on his support by the combined Great Powers, but mostly the support of the British, suffered in the Pacifico incident of 1850, when British Foreign Secretary Palmerston sent the British fleet to blockade the port of Piraeus with warships, to exact reparation for injustice done to a British subject.

Never on Sunday (, ) is a 1960 Greek black-and-white film which tells the story of Ilya, a prostitute who lives in the port of Piraeus in Greece, and Homer, an American tourist from Middletown, Connecticut — a classical scholar enamored with all things Greek.

In 324, Constantine appointed Crispus as the commander of his fleet which left the port of Piraeus to confront the rival fleet of Licinius.

These included a torch race from the Piraeus to the Acropolis ( the supposed ancestor of the modern Olympic torch relay that takes place prior to the Games, though in reality the modern torch race was invented as propaganda for Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympic Games ), mock infantry and cavalry battles, a javelin throw on horseback, the apobatai ( a chariot race in which the driver had to jump out of the chariot, run alongside, and jump back in ), the pyrriche ( apparently military exercises accompanied by music ), and the euandrion ( essentially a beauty contest among the athletes ).

Unlike most of Plato's dialogues, Socrates does not appear in the Laws: the dialogue takes place on the island of Crete, and Socrates appears outside of Athens in Plato's writings only twice, in the Phaedrus, where he is just outside the city's walls, and in the Republic, where he goes down to the seaport Piraeus five miles outside of Athens.

Cumulus partly spreading into stratocumulus cumulogenitus over the port of Piraeus in Greece

The freeway over the Kifissos or the Cephissus made it down to the freeway ( not far where the river ends ) linking the southern suburbs and Athens from Piraeus which is also Poseidonos Avenue for its final phases owidening GR-1.

* April 20 – South African Squadron Leader Marmaduke " Pat " Pattle is shot down and killed in a Hawker Hurricane over the Saronic Gulf off Piraeus, Greece, during a German bombing raid on the city.

Notable 3 – 2 and 1 – 0 victories over Olympiacos Piraeus moved them in quarter-finals, however ambitious Slovak team was ultimately knocked out by a previous year winner ACF Fiorentina.

After the 2004 Olympics, the facility has hosted fencing competitions, but has recently been turned over to the University of Piraeus for use as an academic lecture and conference center.

Piraeus has a long recorded history, dating to ancient Greece.

Piraeus Bank Group has a constantly expanding network with more than 300 branches in Greece, 14 branches in New York, 1 in the UK, 180 branches in Romania, 72 in Bulgaria, 38 in Albania, 38 in Serbia and 40 in Egypt.

* It has been used at various times as a home ground by the three major football clubs of the Athens area, AEK Athens, Panathinaikos and Olympiacos Piraeus.

* The Federation was founded in 1926, by the three Unions of Football Clubs of Athens, Piraeus and Macedonia-Thrace, is a Private legal entity, a non profit association, which, according to Civil Law, has its registered offices in Athens under the name of Hellenic Football Federation.

This historical process has led to a currently used terminology intended to distinguish between the clearly Asia Minor oriental style, often called " Smyrneïka ", and the bouzouki-based style of the 1930s, often called Piraeus style.

In 2007, a special committee composed of physicians of the Division of Health Inspections of the Prefecture of Piraeus and Piraeus Medical Association has reported that the hospital and the mental clinic of the prison operate without even the minimum conditions of hygiene, with aging infrastructure and big shortages in medical and nursing staff.

It is said that he died in Macedonia after being attacked by the Molossian hounds of King Archelaus and that his cenotaph near Piraeus was struck by lightningsigns of his unique powers, whether for good or ill ( according to one modern scholar, his death might have been caused instead by the harsh Macedonian winter ).

The filmmaker had been with his crew in the area of Drapetsona, near Piraeus when he was hit by a motorcycle driven by an off-duty police officer, on Tuesday evening.

* Pharnabazus dispatches Conon with substantial funds and a large part of the fleet to Attica, where he joins in the rebuilding of the long walls from Athens to Piraeus, a project that had been initiated by Thrasybulus in the previous year.

Pharnabazus then dispatched Conon with substantial funds and a large part of the fleet to Attica, where he joined in the rebuilding of the long walls from Athens to Piraeus, a project that had been initiated by Thrasybulus in 394 BC.

He is commonly listed as one of the Thirty Tyrants who ruled Athens following its defeat in the Peloponnesian War, but evidence points only to his having been one of the ten men appointed by the Thirty to govern the Piraeus.

Dimitris Perrikos (, born December 1935 in Piraeus, Greece ) is a Greek chemist working for the United Nations since 1975.

His family had lived in Greece since the 1830s, where his father, Charles William Louis Merlin, was British Consul at Piraeus.

For Pericles he planned the arrangement of the harbour-town Piraeus at Athens in the middle of the fifth century BC.

At the end of the 19th century Piraeus had a population of 51, 020 people.

;" Around the turn of the 20th century in Athens and Piraeus musicians adapted the saz to their needs, replacing the tied frets with metal frets like those of mandolins and guitars, and in the process abandoning the 1 / 4 tone system for the Western equal-tempered tuned chromatic scale.

*" Kallithea monument ", a 4th century BC family tomb, one of the most impressive exhibits of the Piraeus Archaeological Museum.

One of the lions, known as the Piraeus Lion, is notable for the runic defacements carved in it by invading Scandinavian mercenaries during the eleventh century.