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BOEOTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Boeotia mean? 

BOEOTIA (noun)
  The noun BOEOTIA has 1 sense:

1. a district of ancient Greece to the northwest of Athensplay

  Familiarity information: BOEOTIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BOEOTIA (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)


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