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A battle in which Philip of Macedon defeated the Athenians and Thebans (338 BC) and also Sulla defeated Mithridates (86 BC)
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chaeronea
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Chaeronea ( or ; , Chaironeia , ) is a village and a former municipality in Boeotia , Greece , located about 80 kilometers east of Delphi . Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Livadeia , of which it is a municipal unit. ...
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n. A village in Boeotia, Greece.
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Chaeronea \Chaeronea\ n. (Greek antiquity) either of two battles in ancient Greece, one in which Philip of Macedon defeated the Athenians and Thebans (338 BC), or another in which Sulla defeated Mithridates (86 BC).
Usage examples of chaeronea.
They took Chaeronea, and made slaves of the inhabitants, and, leaving a garrison, commenced their return.
Some Phocians also were in the plot, Chaeronea being the frontier town of Boeotia and close to Phanotis in Phocia.
Succours accordingly flocked in from all parts of Boeotia, Hippocrates not being yet there to make his diversion, and Siphae and Chaeronea were promptly secured, and the conspirators, informed of the mistake, did not venture on any movement in the towns.
At Chaeronea, where I went to muse upon the heroic friendships of the Sacred Battalion, I spent two days as the guest of Plutarch.
And the historical verdict had been pronounced at places immortalized in history: Cynoscephalae, Magnesia, Pydna, Chaeronea.