Plataea

American  

[pluh-tee-uh] / pləˈti ə /

noun

1. an ancient city in Greece, in Boeotia: Greeks defeated Persians here 479 b.c.

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Plataea British  

/ pləˈtiːə /

noun

1. an ancient city in S Boeotia, traditionally an ally of Athens: scene of the defeat of a great Persian army by the Greeks in 479 _bc

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Example Sentences

That hegemony was the result of the settlement that followed the Greco-Persian wars, which ended with Persia’s defeat at Plataea in 479 B.C.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

The Greek allied forces under the command of Sparta advanced into Boeotia and met the Persian army at the Battle of Plataea.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

We learn how, in fifth-century bc Greece, Persian troops crumbled when a coalition of Athenians and Spartans forced them into marshlands before the Battle of Plataea.

From Nature • Aug. 11, 2019

Hekataeus of Miletus, the logographer; born in 549 B.C., died soon after the battle of Plataea.

From On the Sublime by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)

It is not too much to say that the battle of Plataea, as described by Herodotus, is wholly unintelligible.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various