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Plataea
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.216, 23.267
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city, located in Greece in southeastern Boeotia
History
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 territory from that of Thebes. Its inhabitants were known as the Plataeans.