Plataea

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proper noun

An ancient Greek city-state situated in Boeotia near the frontier with Attica at the foot of Mt. Cithaeron, between the mountain and the river Asopus, which divided its territory from that of Thebes.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. historicalAn ancient Greek city-state situated in Boeotia near the frontier with Attica at the foot of Mt. Cithaeron, between the mountain and the river Asopus, which divided its territory from that of Thebes.

Origin

  1. Ancient GreekΠλάταια
  2. EnglishPlataea

Ancient Greek Πλάταια (Plátaia)

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