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Ancient port of Athens

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Place

Phalerum Φάληρον Neighbourhood of South Athens, Greece Phalerum Location within Greece Coordinates: 37°56′1.98″N 23°41′6.85″E / 37.9338833°N 23.6852361°E / 37.9338833; 23.6852361

Phalerum Bay

**Phalerum** or **Phaleron** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Φάληρον **Phálēron** [\[pʰálɛːron\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Greek); [Greek](/source/Greek_language): Φάληρο *(*Fáliro*)*, [\[ˈfaliro\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Greek)) was a port of [Ancient Athens](/source/Ancient_Athens), 5 km southwest of the [Acropolis of Athens](/source/Acropolis_of_Athens),[1] on a bay of the [Saronic Gulf](/source/Saronic_Gulf). The bay is also referred to as "Bay of Phalerum" ([Greek](/source/Greek_language): Όρμος Φαλήρου *Órmos Falíru**).*

The area of Phalerum is now occupied by the towns [Palaio Faliro](/source/Palaio_Faliro), [Kallithea](/source/Kallithea), [Moschato](/source/Moschato) and [Neo Faliro](/source/Neo_Faliro), all of which are part of the Athens agglomeration.

Phalerum was the major port of Athens before [Themistocles](/source/Themistocles) had the three rocky natural harbours by the promontory of [Piraeus](/source/Piraeus) developed as alternative, from 491 BC.[2] It was said that [Menestheus](/source/Menestheus) set sail with his fleet to [Troy](/source/Troy) from Phalerum, as did [Theseus](/source/Theseus) when he sailed to [Crete](/source/Crete) after the death of [Androgeus](/source/Androgeus_(son_of_Minos)).[3]

Recently, archaeologists have uncovered what appear to be traces of ancient Athens’s first port before the city’s naval and shipping centre was moved to Piraeus. The site, some 350 m from the modern coastline, contained pottery, tracks from the carts that would have served the port, and makeshift fireplaces where travelers waiting to take ship would have cooked and kept warm.

*Olympias*, a modern reconstruction of an ancient trireme naval ship.

The Park of Maritime Tradition, a collection of preserved historic ships, is located at the site. At the southern tip is the permanent anchorage of the armored cruiser *[HS Averof](/source/Greek_cruiser_Georgios_Averof)* (now a floating museum), which was the admiralty ship of the [Hellenic Navy](/source/Hellenic_Navy) during the [Balkan Wars](/source/Balkan_Wars) and [World War I](/source/World_War_I). Other museum ships include the Hellenic Navy destroyer *[HS Velos](/source/USS_Charrette_(DD-581))* (D16), the old cable ship *Thalis o Milisios* (Thales of Miletos)[4] and *[Olympias](/source/Olympias_(trireme))*, a modern reconstruction of an ancient [trireme](/source/Trireme) naval ship.

## Notable people

- [Demetrius of Phalerum](/source/Demetrius_of_Phalerum), orator

## See also

- [List of ancient Greek cities](/source/List_of_ancient_Greek_cities)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Bourchier, James David (1911). ["Athens"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Athens_(Greece)). In [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm) (ed.). *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)*. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 831.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Faliro"](http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Geo/en/Faliro.html). *www.hellenicaworld.com*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), *Description of Greece*, 1.1.2

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Formerly the US Army [cable ship](/source/Mine_planter_(vessel)) *Joseph Henry*

## External links

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