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The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states in 418 BC and 362 BC and 207 BC
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mantinea
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mantinea \Mantinea\, Mantineia \Mantineia\prop. n. The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states: in 418 BC and 362 BC and 207 BC. Syn: Mantineia.
Usage examples of mantinea.
Chapter XVI Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese - League of the Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and Athenians - Battle of Mantinea and breaking up of the League After the treaty and the alliance between the Lacedaemonians and Athenians, concluded after the ten years' war, in the ephorate of Pleistolas at Lacedaemon, and the archonship of Alcaeus at Athens, the states which had accepted them were at peace.
The Lacedaemonians accordingly laid waste the Parrhasian country, and the Mantineans, placing their town in the hands of an Argive garrison, addressed themselves to the defence of their confederacy, but being unable to save Cypsela or the Parrhasian towns went back to Mantinea.