Pira

See Piro. Piracicaba (pē-rä-sē-käʼbä), or Constituição (kōn-ste-twē-soun'). A town of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, about 75 miles northwest of São Paulo. Population, about 10,000. Piræus, or Peiræus (pi-rē'us):: also Piræeus. [Gr. Πειραιεύς .] The seaport of Athens, situated on the Saronic Gulf 5 miles southwest of Athens. It is one of the chief ports of Greece. It was founded by Them is toc les and Pericles; was destroyed by Sulla in 86 B. C.; and has been rebuilt in the present century. It was was in ancient times connected with Athens by the "Long Walls," and is now connected by a railway. Population (1889), 34,327. Pirano (pē-rä'nō). A seaport in Istria, Austria-Hungary, situated on the Gulf of Triest 14 miles southwest of Triest. Near it, in 1177, the Venetian fleet defeated the Genoese and Imperialists. Population (1890), commune, 12,326. Piran Round. An ancient theater in Cornwall.