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Plataea

Southern Europe

Plataea was an ancient Greek city-state in Boeotia, situated at the foot of Mount Cithaeron between the mountain and the Asopus River, which separated its territory from that of Thebes. It was the site of the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC, in which an alliance of Greek city-states defeated the invading Persians, and the city was destroyed and rebuilt more than once before falling under Macedonian control after Philip II's victory at Chaeronea in 338 BC. The modern village of Plataies stands beside its ancient ruins today.

Facts
Latitude
38.22136 degrees north 1
Longitude
23.27388 degrees east 1
Elevation Band
Lowland 2
Climate Zone
Temperate 3
Time Zone
UTC+02:00 4
Sources
1. Plataea (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
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latitude 38.22136, longitude 23.27388
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2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 38.2214,23.2739
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevation
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"elevation": 326.0
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3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 38.25, 23.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 38.25, 23.25
38.25 23.25 Csa
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4. GeoNames: Plataiés - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 255093, nearest place to the city coordinates (1.03 km)
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38.21357 23.2675 P PPL GR ESYE24 33 9144 3602 368 Europe/Athens
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Wikidata: Plataea
Wikidata Q742538, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Plataea (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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