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Thespiai (Extinct city)

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Geographic headingThespiai (Extinct city)
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Geographic subdivision usageGreece--Thespiai (Extinct city)
Variant(s)Thespiae (Extinct city)
See alsoExtinct cities--Greece
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Greece--Antiquities
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Found inWork cat: Bintliff, J.L. The city of Thespiai, 2017: back cover (few major Classical cities have disappeared so completely from view, over the centuries, as Thespiai in central Greece)
Wikipedia, viewed 8 Nov. 2018 (Thespiae was an ancient Greek city (polis) in Boeotia. It stood on level ground commanded by the low range of hills which run eastward from the foot of Mount Helicon to Thebes, near modern Thespies. Not to be confused with Thespiae which was a town (unlocated) in ancient Thessaly.)
Pleiades website, viewed 8 Nov. 2018: ancient places (Thespiai. Temporal attestations: Archaic (Greco-Roman; 750-550 BCE/BC), Classical (Greco-Roman; 550 BC-330 BC), Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC), Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300), Late Antique (AD 300-AD 640))
Britannica online, Jan. 17, 2019: (Thespiae; ancient city in Greece; alternative title: Thespiai)