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The municipality of Piraeus and four other suburban municipalities form the regional unit of Piraeus, sometimes called the Greater Piraeus area, with a total population of 448,051. At the 2021 census, Piraeus had a population of 168,151 people, making it the fifth largest municipality in Greece and the second largest (after the municipality of ...
The siege of Athens and Piraeus was a siege of the First Mithridatic War that took place from autumn of 87 BC to the spring of 86 BC. [5] The battle was fought between the forces of the Roman Republic , commanded by Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix on the one hand, and the forces of the Kingdom of Pontus and the Athenian City-State on the other.
The Piraeus and the Long Walls of Athens Ancient Athens. Although long walls were built at several locations in ancient Greece, notably Corinth and Megara, [1] the term Long Walls (Ancient Greek: Μακρὰ Τείχη [makra tei̯kʰɛː]) generally refers to the walls that connected Athens' main city to its ports at Piraeus and Phaleron.
[6] [7] [8] The town was situated on the cape then called Artemisium (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον) or Dianium [9] (Ancient Greek: Διάνιον), named from a temple of Ephesia Artemis built upon it (goddess Artemis was called Diana in Latin). 470 Naxos is impressed into the Delian League; 470 Ducetius annexes Ergezio
An Orthodox Christian from birth, Queen Olga became aware, during visits to wounded servicemen in the Greco-Turkish War (1897), that many were unable to read the Bible. [9] The version used by the Church of Greece included the Septuagint version of the Old Testament and the original Greek-language version of the New Testament.
Themistokles built the walls and city gates of Piraeus in 493 BC and according to Thucydides this marked the foundation of the city of Piraeus. However, most of the construction took place following the Greco-Persian Wars.
Hadrian of Piraeus is the only surviving (if partially) colossal statue of Hadrian in Greece. According to Pausanias, an over lifesize statue of the emperor stood behind the temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, a gift from the Athenians dedicated to Hadrian's Greek policy and symbol of the citizens's gratitude for Hadrian's work in Athens. [7]
The plague killed an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 people, around 25% of the population, and is believed to have entered Athens through Piraeus, the city's port and sole source of food and supplies. [1] Thucydides, an Athenian survivor, wrote that much of the eastern Mediterranean also saw an outbreak of the disease, albeit with less impact. [2]