Boeotia

[ bee-oh-shuh ]

noun

1. a district in ancient Greece, NW of Athens. : Thebes.

Boeotia

/ bɪˈəʊʃɪə /

noun

1. a region of ancient Greece, northwest of Athens. It consisted of ten city-states, which formed the Boeotian League, led by Thebes: at its height in the 4th century bc Modern Greek nameVoiotia

Example Sentences

Secondly, Hesiod claims that his father—if not he himself—came from Aeolis and settled in Boeotia.

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This is the presence of an Aeolic or semi-Aeolic form of language in Boeotia.

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Cithaeron and Taygetus were mountains, the one in Boeotia and the other in Laconia.

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Geometric Ware with matt paint and pale clay corresponding to that of islands found in Argolid and Boeotia.

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Date uncertain, but in Boeotia evidence that it ended before rise of 'Minyan' ware.

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