Plataea

American  

[pluh-tee-uh] / pləˈti ə /

noun

1. an ancient city in Greece, in Boeotia: Greeks defeated Persians here 479 b.c.

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Plataea British  

/ pləˈtiːə /

noun

1. an ancient city in S Boeotia, traditionally an ally of Athens: scene of the defeat of a great Persian army by the Greeks in 479 _bc

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Plataea

That hegemony was the result of the settlement that followed the Greco-Persian wars, which ended with Persia’s defeat at Plataea in 479 B.C.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

The Greek allied forces under the command of Sparta advanced into Boeotia and met the Persian army at the Battle of Plataea.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

We learn how, in fifth-century bc Greece, Persian troops crumbled when a coalition of Athenians and Spartans forced them into marshlands before the Battle of Plataea.

From Nature ● Aug. 11, 2019

Leonidas, son of Cleonymus, was of the other royal house of the Agiadae, and the eighth in descent from Pausanias, who defeated Mardonius in the battle of Plataea.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

In the great Persian war of 480 Corinth served as the Greek headquarters: her army took part at Thermopylae and Plataea and her navy distinguished itself at Salamis and Mycale.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

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