Plataea

For the geometer moth genus, see Plataea (moth). Plataea or Plataeae was an ancient city, located in Greece in southeastern Boeotia, south of Thebes. It was the location of the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC, in which an alliance of Greek city-states defeated the Persians and ended the Persian Wars. Plataea was destroyed in the Peloponnesian War by Thebes and Sparta in 427 BC and rebuilt in 386 BC.
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Noun
1. a defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC
(synonym) battle of Plataea
(hypernym) pitched battle
(classification) Boeotia