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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 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]
The fortifications of Classical Athens, including the Themistoclean Wall around the city and the Long Walls. The city of Athens, capital of modern Greece, has had different sets of city walls from the Bronze Age to the early 19th century. The city walls of Athens include: the Mycenaean Cyclopean fortifications of the Acropolis of Athens
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.
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]
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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 ...
Kerameikos (Greek: Κεραμεικός, pronounced [ce.ɾa.miˈkos]) also known by its Latinized form Ceramicus, is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River.