Boeotia
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Boeotia, also spelled Beotia and Bœotia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the west by Phocis. Lake Copais was a large lake in the center of Boeotia.
Boeotia Prefecture is a prefecture of modern Greece with approximately the same boundaries.
Natives of Boeotia
- Bakis
- Corinna
- Epaminondas
- Gorgidas
- Hesiod
- Luke the Evangelist (traditionally location of his death)
- Narcissus (mythology)
- Pelopidas
- Pindar
- Plutarch
See also
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