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Boeotia

American

[bee-oh-shuh] / biˈoʊ ʃə /

noun

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

Boeotia British

/ bɪˈəʊʃɪə /

noun

Modern Greek name: Voiotia. 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

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Fires are raging elsewhere - on the island of Evia and in Boeotia in central Greece, where several villages have been evacuated.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2023

In 479 BCE, the reduced Persian force had retreated from Athens to the plains of Boeotia, just north of Attica.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Crawford takes readers to ancient Greece, to the remote borderlands between city-states such as Athens and Boeotia, Sparta and Argos.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

In ancient Boeotia, we meet a small tribe of what the program calls “mountain nymphs.”

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2021

In this way Thebes was founded and the country round about got the name of the heifer’s land, Boeotia.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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