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Boeotia

Name: Boeotia
Address: GR

38.4333°N 22.8833°E · Q8257871

One English word in this atlas traces back to Boeotia. It sits in Greece.

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Boeotianadjective · 17th century

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An insult preserved from one Greek region's rivalry with another.

Athenian writers cast their Boeotian neighbours as slow-witted, and the adjective carried that judgement into English. Thebes was Boeotia's chief city.

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