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

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

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

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

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

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