Historical place profile
Plataea
Plataea is an ancient city of Boeotia, located south of Thebes. In 479 BC Plataea was the site of the Battle of Plataea, in which an allied Greek army defeated the Persians. Plataea was destroyed in the Peloponnesian War by Thebes and Sparta in 427 BC and rebuilt in 386 BC.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:541063
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:541063
- Place type
- abbey-church, archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.221075, 23.273538
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Plataea is an ancient city of Boeotia, located south of Thebes. In 479 BC Plataea was the site of the Battle of Plataea, in which an allied Greek army defeated the Persians. Plataea was destroyed in the Peloponnesian War by Thebes and Sparta in 427 BC and rebuilt in 386 BC.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 55 E4 Plataea
Source and reuse
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Research path
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