Piraeus Prefecture ( el, Νομός Πειραιά or Νομός Πειραιώς) was one of the
prefectures of Greece. Created in 1964 as a separate Prefecture (Νομός) and after the dissolution of the prefecture in 1972 was one of the 4 prefectures (Νομαρχίες) of
Attica prefecture
Attica Prefecture ( el, Νομὸς Ἀττικῆς) was a prefecture of Greece, first established in 1833 and disestablished for the last time in 1987. The prefecture was coextensive with the present-day Attica region.
History
Attica Prefectu ...
, and from 1994, part of the
Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture (1994–2011). The capital of the prefecture was
Piraeus
Piraeus ( ; el, Πειραιάς ; grc, Πειραιεύς ) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located southwest of Athens' city centre, along the east coast of the Saroni ...
. As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the prefecture was abolished, and its territory was divided into two regional units:
Islands and
Piraeus
Piraeus ( ; el, Πειραιάς ; grc, Πειραιεύς ) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located southwest of Athens' city centre, along the east coast of the Saroni ...
.
History
The prefecture covered the south-western part of the agglomeration of
Athens, several islands in the
Saronic Gulf
The Saronic Gulf (Greek: Σαρωνικός κόλπος, ''Saronikós kólpos'') or Gulf of Aegina in Greece is formed between the peninsulas of Attica and Argolis and forms part of the Aegean Sea. It defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Co ...
(
Salamis,
Aegina,
Agkistri
Agistri, also Angistri or Agkistri (Greek: Αγκίστρι , English: " fishing hook"), is a small populated island and municipality in the Saronic Gulf in the Islands regional unit, Greece. Settlements
There are only three settlements on Agis ...
,
Poros
Poros ( el, Πόρος) is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, about south from the port of Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas on the mainland across the s ...
,
Hydra,
Dokos,
Spetses
Spetses ( el, Σπέτσες, grc, Πιτυούσσα "Pityussa", Arvanitika: Πετσε̱) is an upscale affluent island in Attica, Greece. It is included as one of the Saronic Islands. Until 1948, it was part of the old prefecture of Argolis ...
,
Spetsopoula),
Methana
Methana ( el, Μέθανα) is a town and a former municipality on the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Troizinia-Methana, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has ...
and
Troizina
Troezen (; ancient Greek: Τροιζήν, modern Greek: Τροιζήνα ) is a small town and a former municipality in the northeastern Peloponnese, Greece, on the Argolid Peninsula. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the m ...
on the
Peloponnese peninsula, and the islands of
Kythira
Kythira (, ; el, Κύθηρα, , also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira) is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is traditionally listed as one of the seven main Ionian Islands ...
and
Antikythera
Antikythera or Anticythera ( ) is a Greek island lying on the edge of the Aegean Sea, between Crete and Peloponnese. In antiquity the island was known as (). Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Kythira isla ...
south of the Peloponnese. An indication of the geographical diversity of the prefecture was the stark difference in
population density between its seven mainland
municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the Athens
urban area, which have 9,244.2 inhabitants/km
2, and its detached outlying areas, which average only 85.83 inhabitants/km
2 (and most of these on Salamis Island, at 395.40/km
2, while the far-outlying parts have only 47.80/km
2).
Municipalities and communities
Provinces
*Province of
Salamis - Salamina
*Province of
Aegina - Aegina
*Province of
Troizinia
Troizinia-Methana ( el, Τροιζηνία-Μέθανα) is a municipality in the Islands regional unit, Attica, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Galatas.
The municipality was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the mer ...
- Methana
*Province of
Hydra and
Spetses
Spetses ( el, Σπέτσες, grc, Πιτυούσσα "Pityussa", Arvanitika: Πετσε̱) is an upscale affluent island in Attica, Greece. It is included as one of the Saronic Islands. Until 1948, it was part of the old prefecture of Argolis ...
- Hydra
*Province of
Kythira
Kythira (, ; el, Κύθηρα, , also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira) is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is traditionally listed as one of the seven main Ionian Islands ...
- Kythira
*Province of
Piraeus
Piraeus ( ; el, Πειραιάς ; grc, Πειραιεύς ) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located southwest of Athens' city centre, along the east coast of the Saroni ...
- Piraeus
''Note:'' Provinces no longer hold any legal status in
Greece.
References
External links
*
Official website
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Prefectures of Greece
Geography of Attica
History of Piraeus
Islands (regional unit)
1972 establishments in Greece
2010 disestablishments in Greece
States and territories established in 1972
States and territories disestablished in 2010