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Mideia (Boeotia)

Southern Europe

Mideia was a city of ancient Boeotia, in what is now Greece, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad. Its ultimate fate is uncertain: one account holds that its inhabitants migrated to found the nearby city of Lebadeia, while another says the city was submerged by Lake Copais. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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    Mideia (Ancient Greek: Μίδεια) was a city of ancient Boeotia mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.
  • In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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