plataea

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plataea - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Plataea
      n 1: a former town in Boeotia; site of a battle between the
           Greeks and Persians in 479 BC
      2: a defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479
         BC [syn: Plataea, battle of Plataea]