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Main harbor of Athens, on its western side, and one of the Attic demes.
The harbor was fortified by Themistocles around 483, at the same time he was building the war fleet that would give Athens the victory in the second Persian War. Later, Pericles, starting in 461, had the so-called "Long Walls" built to link Athens to Piræus.