Boeotia
a district in ancient Greece, NW of Athens.
Capital: Thebes.
Historical Examples
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia Edited by Rev. James Wood
The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides
1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described Edward S. Ellis
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Heroic Age H. Munro Chadwick
Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb
The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers Various
Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb
The World of Homer Andrew Lang
noun
a region of ancient Greece, northwest of Athens. It consisted of ten city-states, which formed the Boeotian League, led by Thebes: at its height in the 4th century bc Modern Greek name Voiotia
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