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BOEOTIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A district of ancient Greece to the northwest of Athens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Meronyms (parts of "Boeotia"):
Thebes (an ancient Greek city in Boeotia destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC)
Plataea (a former town in Boeotia; site of a battle between the Greeks and Persians in 479 BC)
Domain member region:
battle of Plataea; Plataea (a defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC)
Holonyms ("Boeotia" is a part of...):
Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)
Derivation:
Boeotian (of or relating to ancient Boeotia or its people or to the dialect spoken there in classical times)
