Plataea
E123884
Plataea was an ancient Greek city-state in southern Boeotia, best known as the site of the decisive 479 BC battle in which Greek forces defeated the invading Persian army.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Plataea canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1060881 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Plataea Context triple: [Boeotia, contains, Plataea]
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Battle of Plataea
The Battle of Plataea was a decisive land engagement in 479 BC during the Greco-Persian Wars, where a coalition of Greek city-states defeated the Persian forces, effectively ending the Persian invasion of mainland Greece.
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B.
Battle of Delium
The Battle of Delium was a significant engagement of the Peloponnesian War in 424 BC, where Boeotian forces decisively defeated the Athenians near the sanctuary of Apollo at Delium.
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Battle of Aegospotami
The Battle of Aegospotami was the decisive 405 BC naval defeat of Athens by Sparta that effectively ended the Peloponnesian War and led to the collapse of Athenian power.
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D.
Battle of Mycale
The Battle of Mycale was a decisive 479 BC engagement during the Greco-Persian Wars in which a coalition of Greek city-states defeated the Persian fleet and army on the coast of Asia Minor, helping end Persian naval dominance in the region.
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E.
Battle of Potidaea
The Battle of Potidaea was an early land and naval engagement between Athens and Corinthian-allied forces that helped spark and shape the opening phase of the Peloponnesian War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Plataea Target entity description: Plataea was an ancient Greek city-state in southern Boeotia, best known as the site of the decisive 479 BC battle in which Greek forces defeated the invading Persian army.
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A.
Battle of Plataea
The Battle of Plataea was a decisive land engagement in 479 BC during the Greco-Persian Wars, where a coalition of Greek city-states defeated the Persian forces, effectively ending the Persian invasion of mainland Greece.
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B.
Battle of Delium
The Battle of Delium was a significant engagement of the Peloponnesian War in 424 BC, where Boeotian forces decisively defeated the Athenians near the sanctuary of Apollo at Delium.
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C.
Battle of Aegospotami
The Battle of Aegospotami was the decisive 405 BC naval defeat of Athens by Sparta that effectively ended the Peloponnesian War and led to the collapse of Athenian power.
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D.
Battle of Mycale
The Battle of Mycale was a decisive 479 BC engagement during the Greco-Persian Wars in which a coalition of Greek city-states defeated the Persian fleet and army on the coast of Asia Minor, helping end Persian naval dominance in the region.
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E.
Battle of Potidaea
The Battle of Potidaea was an early land and naval engagement between Athens and Corinthian-allied forces that helped spark and shape the opening phase of the Peloponnesian War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek city-state
ⓘ
battle ⓘ polis ⓘ |
| alliance | Delian League ⓘ |
| allyOf | Athens ⓘ |
| belligerent |
Achaemenid Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Achaemenid Persian Empire
Greek city-states ⓘ |
| commander |
Artaphernes
ⓘ
surface form:
Mardonius
Pausanias of Sparta ⓘ |
| date | 479 BC ⓘ |
| destroyedBy |
Persians
ⓘ
Thebes ⓘ |
| destroyedIn |
427 BC
ⓘ
480s BC ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Thebes ⓘ |
| ethnicDesignation | Plataean ⓘ |
| hasMemorial | Greek war memorials for Battle of Plataea ⓘ |
| hasNearbyRiver | Asopus River ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | Battle of Plataea ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Battle of Plataea
ⓘ
alliance with Athens ⓘ resistance to Persia ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Boeotia
ⓘ
Boeotia ⓘ Plataea self-linksurface differs ⓘ Greek Antiquity ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Greece
Boeotia ⓘ
surface form:
southern Boeotia
|
| locatedNear |
Attica
ⓘ
Mount Cithaeron ⓘ |
| mentionedBy |
Herodotus
ⓘ
Thucydides ⓘ |
| modernSiteNear | modern Plataies, Greece ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Plataean siege (431–427 BC) ⓘ |
| partOf |
Boeotia
ⓘ
Boeotian League ⓘ Greco-Persian Wars ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | independent polis ⓘ |
| populationType | Greek ⓘ |
| rebuiltBy | Athenians ⓘ |
| region |
central Greece
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Greece
|
| religion | ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| result | decisive Greek victory ⓘ |
| roleInHistory |
Athenian ally in Peloponnesian War
ⓘ
key participant in Greco-Persian Wars ⓘ |
| significance | decisive defeat of Persian land forces in Greece ⓘ |
| terrain |
Mount Cithaeron
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surface form:
foothills of Mount Cithaeron
near a plain suitable for battle ⓘ |
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Subject: Plataea Description of subject: Plataea was an ancient Greek city-state in southern Boeotia, best known as the site of the decisive 479 BC battle in which Greek forces defeated the invading Persian army.
Referenced by (13)
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