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[German version] [1] Attic deme This item can be found on the following maps: Theatre | Peloponnesian War | Persian Wars | Attica | Attica | Education / Culture (Πειραιεύς/ Peiraieús, Latin Piraeus, modern Piraeus). [German version] I. Topography Large Attic deme of the phyle Hippothontis, main harbour of Athens on the west coast of Attica, c. 7 km from Athens. Its territory is a peninsula stretching c. 3 km into the Saronikos Kolpos, between the Aegaleos in the north and the Hymettus in the east. The west side of this peninsula encloses the 'large harbour', Kantharos, which is closed off on the west by the headland of Eetionia. It is dominated in the south by the Acte ridge (57 m high) and in the east by the hill of Munychia (86 m high), which at the time of Thucydides (2,13,7) was not counted as an immediate part of P. Between Acte and Mun…