Piraeus in a sentence

The Battle of Piraeus was then fought between Athenian exiles who had defeated the government of the Thirty Tyrants and occupied Piraeus and a Spartan force sent to combat them.

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos performed the ritual at Piraeus, the largest port of the country.

On November 14, 1959 it returned to its home port of Piraeus for the last time, twenty years after its first departure as the pride of the Greek nation.

PIRAEUS - A 47-year-old crane operator died and two more workers were gravely injured after an industrial labor accident occured at the Perama Shipyard Repair Zone, in Attica, on Monday.

There is also an impressive Museum of Marble Crafts in Pyrgos with a permanent collection which recently opened to the public by the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation on International Sculpture Day on April 24, 2021.

Approximately 80% of the German Navy accommodations (Marineunterkünfte) in Piraeus were destroyed.

Athens first metro was built by British entrepreneurs in 1869, connecting Thissio station to the port of Piraeus.

For a family of four to travel with a car from Piraeus to Rhodes on a round trip, it costs 845 euros.

Meanwhile, fighting continues unabated in Athens and Piraeus.

Police sources told AFP they had identified the dead man from his dismembered remains as a 36-year-old from the port city of Piraeus who had been previously arrested in Germany.

Rangers are making the trip to Piraeus to take on Olympiacos in a showdown at Stadio Georgios Karaiskaki today (Thursday, November 7).

The program supported a total of more than 230 businesses in the Municipality of Piraeus, providing over 500 hours of support, including on-site meetings, participation in three (3) exhibitions, and the organization of four (4) training seminars.

Today, a copy of the lion gazes like a fearsome guard at all the incoming ships in the port, while other copies are exhibited at the Piraeus Archaeological Museum and, interestingly enough, at the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm.

At least 20 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in a passenger ship anchored off Piraeus, near Athens, Health Ministry officials said on Tuesday.

Guardiola gave Foden a start against the Greek champions in Piraeus and the international responded by sweeping in the only goal of the game in the 36th minute after meeting a backheel from Raheem Sterling with a first-time shot.

Now, after five nights sleeping on bunkbeds in a tiny hotel room in the Greek port city of Piraeus, their lives are about to change.

Refugees at the Greek port of Piraeus in September 2015.

A source close to the Piraeus Bank deal said the portfolio of shipping loans, called Nemo, was made up of nonperforming and performing loans with a nominal value of 500-600 million euros.

Greece, a dominant player in shortsea shipping, as it is in oceangoing shipping, hosted the annual European Conference of the European Shortsea Network in Piraeus on Thursday.

In a report issued on Monday Moody’s noted that large stocks of bad debt continue to weigh on Alpha, Eurobank, National and Piraeus, posing a significant threat to their solvency.