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Plataea

Plataea proper noun: 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 territory from that of Thebes.

Proper noun

Plataea

  1. (historical) 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 territory from that of Thebes.

Origin of Plataea

Ancient Greek Πλάταια (Plátaia)

Words formed from Plataea

Questions about Plataea

What does Plataea mean?
Plataea means 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 territory from that of Thebes.
What part of speech is Plataea?
Plataea is a proper noun.

Words near Plataea in the dictionary

  1. plat-eyes
  2. Plata
  3. platable
  4. platacanthomyid
  5. platacanthomyids
  6. Plataea
  7. Plataean
  8. Plataeans
  9. Platamon
  10. platan
  11. platanaceous

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