Piraeus

Mikrolimano.

Harbor.

Port of Piraeus.

Municipal theatre.

Karaiskakis Stadium, home of Olympiacos.

Piraeus is a port and municipality in Athens, Attica, Greece, in the south of the center of Athens.

The population of Piraeus is 163,688 (2011).

Population

Year	Municipal population	Change	Density
1981	196,389	-	17,853.55/km²
1991	182,671	-14,168/-7.25%	16,606.45/km²
2001	175,697	-6,974/-3.82%	15,972.45/km²

Sister cities

• Marseille, France
• Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
• Ostrava, Czech republic
• Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Galaţi, Romania since 1985
• Varna, Bulgaria
• Vilnius, Lithuania

Famous residents

• Polychronis Lembesis (1848-1913) painter
• Ioannis Koutsis (18601953) painter
• Gerasimos Vokos (1868-1927) journalist and writer
• Alexandros Christofis (1875-1957) painter
• Stylianos Miliadis (1881-1965) writer
• Yiorgos Batis (1885-1967) rebetiko musician
• Dimitris Pikionis (1887-1968) architect
• Michalis Oikonomou (1888-1933) painter
• Katina Paxinou (1900–1973) actress
• Markos Vamvakaris (1905-1972) musician and composer
• Emmanuel Kriaras (1906) philologist and lexicographer
• Yannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989) painter
• Dimitrios Gavriilidis (1914) artist
• Michalis Genitsaris (1917-2005) singer and composer
• Andreas Krystallis (1919-1951) painter
• Ektor Kaknavatos (1920) poet
• Nicola Zaccaria (1923-2007) opera singer
• Thanasis Veggos (1926) actor and film director
• Andreas Mouratis (1926) footballer
• John S. Romanides (1927-2001) priest and theologian
• Archbishop Anastasios of Albania (1929)
• Dimitris Papamichael (1931-2004)
• Costas Simitis (1936) economist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece
• Jannis Kounellis (1936) sculptor
• Tolis Voskopoulos (1940) singer and actor
• Thodoris Dritsas (1947) politician
• George Dalaras (1949) singer
• Yiannis Kyrastas (1952-2004) footballer and football manager
• Eleftheria Arvanitaki (1956) singer
• Mando (1966) singer
• Grigoris Georgatos (1973) footballer
• Spyros Paliouras (1957-1975) writer
• Nikolaos Pavlopoulos (1909-1990) sculptor and writer
• The Andrianopoulos brothers, founders of the Olympiacos sporting club

Mayors of Piraeus

• Christos Agrapidis (1999-2006)
• Panagiotis Fasoulas (2007- )

Universities and technological institutes

• University of Piraeus

References

This article includes text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Please add to the article as needed.

Other websites

• Municipality of Pireas Archived 2007-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
• Piraeus Port Authority
• The Marble Lion of Piraeus Archived 2007-11-01 at the Wayback Machine

	North: Nikaia, Korydallos and Agia Varvara
West: Drapetsona, Keratsini,Perama	Piraeus	East: Agios Ioannis Rentis and Moschato
	South: Saronic Gulf, Phaleron Bay SE