Catalan Company and the Battle of Halmyros (1311) |
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Hungarian raid in Eastern Sterea Hellas and Boeotia (943) |
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The Battle at Petra (1829) |
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The Battle at Vasilika (1821) |
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The Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) and the destruction of Thebes |
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The Battle of Plataea (479 BC) and the role of Boeotia in the Persian Wars |
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Battle in the territory of the Greek polis of Plataiai, in southern Boiotia, in 479 B.C. Decisive victory of a Greek army, commanded by the Spartan king Pausanias, over the Persian invasion army under the command of Mardonios, which finally stopped the Persian campaign of 480/79 B.C. to conquer Greece. |
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The Dilessi Murders (1870) |
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The fall of Thebes and Levadia to the Accaiuoli (1379-1381) |
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On March 6, 1379 Thebes, the capital of the Catalan Duchy, was attacked by men of Navarrese Company who were in the service of Nerio Acciaioli, lord of Corinth. The city succumbed to the attack of the Navarrese, who handed it over to Nerio after having pillaged it. One year later (1380) the same mercenary company captured Lebadea, while Athens succumbed to the army of the Acciaioli eight years later, in 1388. |
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The Massacre at Distomo and Kalami (1944) |
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In May of 1944, German forces settle in Fthiotis and Boeotia aiming at their reformation and the control of partisan activities. On 10th June, the 2nd Company of the I/7 Battalion was ordered to clean the area around Distomo which was an enemy zone. The German forces moved to the village and when the village authorities refused to provide them with information concerning the partisans, they killed 233 out of the 300 village residents who had remained at their homes (the rest 1500 had already... |
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The Norman invasion and the sack of Thebes (1147/8) |
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