It is known for its large shipyard. It took its name by the Chiot merchant Amvrosios Skaramagas.
■ Geography
Skaramagas is situated on the east coast of the Bay of Eleusis, a bay of the Saronic Gulf. The Aigaleo mountain to the east separates it from Piraeus. Skaramagas is 5 km west of Chaidari town centre, 6 km south of Aspropyrgos, 7 km southeast of Eleusis, 9 km northwest of Piraeus and 11 km west of Athens city centre. Greek National Road 8 (the old Athens - Corinth - Patras road) passes through Skaramagas.
■ Shipyard
Since 1937 Skaramagas harbour has been home to a shipyard of the Hellenic Navy. After destruction in World War II, it was refounded as a commercial shipyard in 1957, the Hellenic Shipyards Co. In 2002, the port became entirely owned by a German group of investors under the industrial leadership of Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, which became a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp in 2005.In 1973, the Skaramagas harbour was the scene of an experiment carried out by Greek scientist Ioannis Sakkas, to test whether or not it was possible for Archimedes to use focused sunlight as a ”heat ray” to burn Roman ships during the Siege of Syracuse (214–212 BC). This event is mentioned in ancient accounts but often doubted by modern historians. In the 1973 experiment at Skaramagas harbour, 70 mirrors with a copper coating, such as were available in Archimedes’ time, did focus enough sunlight to set on fire a plywood mock-up of a Roman warship at a distance of around 50 metres (160 ft).
■ Historical population

NE 3.1Km	Daphni Monastery
NE 4.4Km	Haidari
SE 4.5Km	Agia Varvara
NE 5.0Km	Mount Aigaleo
NW 6.3Km	Telesterion
NW 6.4Km	Eleusis
SE 7.1Km	Aigaleo
NE 7.3Km	West Athens (regional unit)
NE 7.3Km	Peristeri
NE 7.7Km	Petroupoli

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