Associations to the word «Plataea»

Dictionary definition

PLATAEA, noun. A former town in Boeotia; site of a battle between the Greeks and Persians in 479 BC.
PLATAEA, noun. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC.

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