Place:Plataea, Boeotia, Central Greece, Greece

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NamePlataea
Alt namesPlataeaesource: Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 741
Plataiaisource: Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) p 717
Plateesource: ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
TypeAncient City
Located inBoeotia, Central Greece, Greece
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Plataea or Plataia, also Plataeae or Plataiai, was an ancient city, located in Greece in southeastern Boeotia, south of Thebes. It was the location of the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC, in which an alliance of Greek city-states defeated the Persians.

Plataea was destroyed in the Peloponnesian War by Thebes and Sparta in 427 BC, and rebuilt in 386. The modern Greek town of Plataies is built near its ruins.

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