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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Example Sentences

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

The Athenian empire had never included the greater part of Greece proper; since the Thirty Years’ Peace its possessions on the mainland, outside the boundaries of Attica, were limited to Naupactus and Plataea.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

Plataea was the scene of a great victory of the Greeks over the Persians in the year 479 B. C. Moslem—The followers of Mohammed are called Moslems.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes