Plataea
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Plataea or Plataeae was an ancient Greek city-state situated in Boeotia near the frontier with Attica at the foot of Mt. Cithaeron, between the mountain and the river Asopus, which divided its territo
View of Plataea, and the battlefield of the Battle of Plataea
Modern Plataies and ruins of the city of Plataea
Part of the wall of Plataea
The burial mound of the Plataeans, fallen at the Battle of Marathon, Marathon
Plataies
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Plataies, anciently Kokhla, is a village and a former municipality in Boeotia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Thebes, of which it is a municipal unit. Th
Plataea
…city-states defeated the Persians. Plataea was destroyed and rebuilt several times during the Classical period of ancient Greece. The modern Greek town of Plataies is adjacent to its ruins. Plataea was settled during the Bronze Age. (It was mentioned in Homer in the Iliad as among the other Boeotian cities). Local…
Village of Plataies, near the ruins of old Plataea. Location of the 479 BCE Battle of Plataea.
View of Plataies and surrounding area from above.
Ruins of Plataea.