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The long walls were a critical factor in allowing the Athenian fleet to become the city's paramount strength. With the building of the Long Walls, Athens essentially became an island within the mainland, in that no strictly land-based force could hope to capture it. [7] (In ancient Greek warfare, it was all but impossible to take a walled city ...
the Valerian Wall, built in c. 260 AD, partly along the lines of older walls, partly as a new fortification, to protect the city against barbarian attacks the Herulian (or Post-Herulian) [ 2 ] Wall, a much smaller circuit built in c. 280 AD , enclosing the centre of the ancient city following its sack by the Heruli in 267 AD
The station is served the following lines of the Athens Proastiakos or suburban railway: Athens Suburban Railway Line A1 between Piraeus and Athens Airport, with up to one train per hour; [17] Athens Suburban Railway Line A3 towards Chalcis, with up to one train every two hours, and one extra train during the peak hours; [18]
Long walls were ancient Greek defensive structures between cities and ports, especially the Long Walls linking Athens to Piraeus and Phalerum. The Long Wall may also refer to: Anastasian Wall; Long Wall on the Thracian Chersonese; Long Wall of China, more commonly known as the Great Wall; Long Wall of Korea, either of two great walls between ...
The Themistoclean Wall (Greek: Θεμιστόκλειον τείχος), [1] named after the Athenian statesman Themistocles, was built in Athens, Greece during the 5th century BC as a result of the Persian Wars and in the hopes of defending against further invasion.
The Station opened in its original form on 30 June 1884 [3] on what was the Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese line (or SPAP) build to connect Piraeus and Athens. The station was built to the designs of French engineers, led by Alfred Rondel and chief engineer Abel Gotteland, and later remodelled by 19th-century architect Ernst Ziller. [1]
The Long Wall was actually a succession of walls on the base of the Thracian Chersonese, the first of which was built in the late 6th century BC by the Athenian magnate Miltiades the Elder. [1] Miltiades became the ruler of the Greek city-states of the Thracian Chersonese in 555 BC. [ 2 ]
Kato Acharnes (Greek: Κάτω Αχαρνές) is a station on the Piraeus–Platy railway line in Agioi Anargyroi, West Athens. This station opened on 27 February 2014. [ 4 ] It owes its name to the area of Kato Acharnes, and is located next to Merimna Square.