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Pla⋅tae⋅a

[pluh-tee-uh]
–noun
an ancient city in Greece, in Boeotia: Greeks defeated Persians here 479 b.c.
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Pla·tae·a   (plə-tē'ə)   
An ancient city of central Greece southwest of Thebes. It was the site of a major Greek victory over the Persians in 479 B.C.
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