Piraeus (Piraeus Ancient), and sometimes Porto Porto Leone or Dragon, is a historic industrial city and major port of Athens and the Southeast Mediterranean. It is the seat of the Prefecture of Piraeus which is composed of the terrestrial part of the eight municipalities peiraiotikon and islands of the Saronic Gulf.
Declared the first city in 517 BC and in recent years in 1835, is currently the third most populous municipality in the country.
The urban area surrounding the town center is Nice (formerly red), the Koridalos the Keratsini (former Tampouria) Perama, the Drapetsona, and Saint John Rentis.
The city center is about 12 kilometers from Athens, he is the port and associated with it a plethora of media, bus, trolley bus, and the electric railway, the tram, the suburban railway and the future lines the Athens Metro.
The port of Piraeus is the largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world in passenger traffic. [1] The gates of the port, after the final determination, as «private», leading respectively to the piers, depending on the destination of passenger ships berthed. The north-west gates (Q3 & Q4) are leading to docks approaching ships to Crete, Western (E2) of the northeastern Aegean islands and (E1) the Dodecanese central (E7) and the Cyclades (E8) the Argosaronic Gulf while Eastern (E9) Western Cyclades and Samos Ikaria.
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Many ancient authors in order to strengthen the insularity Piraeus etymology of the word "Pireaeus" of "peraiefs" (with the switch to e s). Piraeus is the ferry (peraioo opposite = go), that he who takes the ferry from Faliriki coast on the opposite shore of the Isle of Piraeus. In Dragatsi J. Smith and A. prosigoriko by the name changed later to place names (a combination drug (drug - pharmacies) and vapto (painting - stainer). So says Piraeus profession such as place names Perama Galatas etc. In ancient Greek "ferries" called not only Pireaeus and peiraios (S. Vyzantios). The etymology is consistent and J. Schmidt and K. Wahrman (1929). Finally, the view is reinforced by the designation Peiraios called also the port of Corinth, which also meant ferries
