Editing Plataea (section)

{{Short description|Ancient city in southeastern Boeotia, Greece}}
{{About|the ancient city|the geometer moth genus|Plataea (moth){{!}}''Plataea'' (moth)}}
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[[File:Plataea battlefield.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|View of Plataea, and the battlefield of the [[Battle of Plataea]]]]
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[[File:PLATEAS.jpg|thumb|250px|Part of the wall of Plataea]]

'''Plataea''' ({{IPAc-en|p|l|ə|ˈ|t|iː|ə}}; {{langx|grc|[[wikt:Πλάταια|Πλάταια]]}}, ''Plátaia'') was an ancient Greek [[city-state]] situated in [[Boeotia]] near the frontier with [[Attica]] at the foot of Mt. Cithaeron, between the mountain and the river [[Asopos (Boeotia)|Asopus]], which divided its territory from that of [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]].<ref>Strabo, ''Geography'', ix. p.411. This page is an edited and updated version of an article in Smith's ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'' of 1870, p. 637.</ref> Its inhabitants were known as the ''Plataeans'' ({{lang|grc|Πλαταιαί}}; ''Plataiaí'', {{langx|la|Plataeae}}).

It was the location of the [[Battle of Plataea]] in 479 BC, in which an alliance of Greek [[city-state]]s defeated the [[Persian Empire|Persians]].

Plataea was destroyed and rebuilt several times during the [[Classical Greece|Classical period]] of ancient Greece. The modern Greek town of [[Plataies]] is adjacent to its ruins.