Plataiai
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A Greek polis in the ancient region of Boiotia.
Establishment
January 849 BC: Plataiai is assumed to exist from the beginning of Classical Antiquity, like the cities of Orchomenos and Thebes in the region.
Chronology
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Were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states.
1.1.Second Persian invasion of Greece
Was an unsuccesful military campaign waged by Achaemenid King Xerxes I that sought to conquer all of Greece.
January 478 BC: After the defeat of the Greeks at Thermopylae, Thebes and most of Boeotia sided with the Persians during the Persian invasions of 480 and 479. After the battle of Plataea, the victorious Greeks deprived Thebes of its predominance in the league, which was de facto dissolved (nominally, the Boeotian League continued to exist).
Was a war fought between Sparta as leader of the Peloponnesian League and Sparta's other allies, most notably Thebes, against the Delian League led by Athens with support from Argos.
January 456 BC: The Athenians sent an army under Myronides to attack Boeotia. The Boeotian army gave battle to the Athenians at Oenophyta. The Athenians scored a crushing victory which led to the Athenians conquering all of Boeotia except for Thebes, as well as Phocis and Locris.
January 446 BC: In 447 BC a revolt against the Athenians broke out in Boeotia causing the end of the continental part of the Athenian Empire on the Greek mainland. The Athenians were defeated at the Battle of Coronea. Athens abandoned Boeotia, Phocis, and Locris.
January 445 BC: The Boeotians remained weak until 446, when they revolted against Athenian domination and reconstituted the league.
Was a series of military conflicts fought between Sparta and Thebes for hegemony over Greece. Sparta had emerged victorious from the Peloponnesian War against Athens (431-404 BC), and occupied an hegemonic position over Greece. However, the Spartans' violent interventionism upset their former allies, especially Thebes and Corinth.
3.1.Boeotian war
The Boeotian War broke out in 378 BC as the result of a revolt in Thebes against Sparta. The war saw Thebes become dominant in the Greek World at the expense of Sparta.
January 374 BC: The Boeotian League captured Plataea.
January 549 BC: The Beotian league developed as an alliance of sovereign states in Boeotia about 550 BC, under the leadership of Thebes.
January 385 BC: Plataiai, a greek polis in the ancient region of Boiotia, is resettled in 386 BC.
Disestablishment
January 374 BC: The Boeotian League captured Plataea.
Selected Sources
Boardman, J. / Griffin, J. / Murray, O. (2001): The Oxford Illustrated History of Greece and the Hellenistic World, Oxford (UK), p. 417
Fine, J.V.A. (1983): The Ancient Greeks: A Critical History, Harvard University Press, p. 368
Fine, J.V.A. (1983): The Ancient Greeks: A Critical History, Harvard University Press, p. 674
Hansen, M. G. / Nielsen, T. H. (2004): An inventory of archaic and classic polities, Oxford University Press, p. 431-432
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 1.108
