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THESSALY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fertile plain on the Aegean Sea in east central Greece; Thessaly was a former region of ancient Greece
Synonyms:
Thessalia; Thessaly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Thessaly"):
Cynoscephalae (the fields in Thessaly where in 197 BC the Romans defeated the Macedonians)
Domain member region:
battle of Cynoscephalae; Cynoscephalae (the battle that ended the second Macedonian War (197 BC); the Romans defeated Philip V who lost his control of Greece)
Holonyms ("Thessaly" 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)