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Boeotia

noun
1.
A district of ancient Greece to the northwest of Athens.



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... still survives in full vigor in Italy, with regard to both trade and industry. See p. 6, ante.] and we are in absolute ignorance of the age or the construction of the remarkable tunnel cut to drain Lake Copais in Boeotia. This lake, now reduced by sedimentary deposit and the growth of aquatic and semi-aquatic vegetation to the condition of a marsh, was originally partially drained by natural subterranean outlets in the underlying limestone rock, ...
— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh


Words linked to "Boeotia" :   territory, battle of Plataea, Greece, district, Hellenic Republic, Plataea, Thebes, territorial dominion, Ellas, dominion


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