I had to check the dictionary to discover that Boeotians were inhabitants of a city-state northwest of Attica, reputed to be dull and stupid. |
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Laurium was one area of Attica where slaves probably outnumbered the free population. |
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The pride of Attica Academy was the soccer team, and our social events revolved around them during the season. |
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The Peloponnesian army under King Archidamus reached the borders of Attica and encamped at the deme of Acharnae. |
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The Cave of Archedemos the Nympholept is a small cave near Vari in Attica, Greece. |
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The Spartans, he said, would never dare attack Attica with an Athenian army in their homeland, and an invasion would likely spur a revolt of the helots. |
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So in the summer of 431, a Spartan army invaded Attica, laying waste to Acharnai, a rural deme to the north-west of Athens, within sight of the city walls. |
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Alstom Transport is beginning the final phase of a project to electrify the Athens-Kiato line that connects Attica to the Peloponnese in Greece. |
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Joining them across the United States were lumbermen, fishermen, merchant marines, taxicab drivers, and inmates at Folsom, Attica, and Statesville. |
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According to the Homeric epics, Salamis was founded after the Trojan War by the archer Teucer, who came from the island of Salamis, off Attica. |
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More were planned for the prefectures of Attica, Achaia, Kavala, the Dodecanese islands and Crete. |
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Known since the antiquity, Corinth with its strategic geographical position joining Attica with Peloponnesus, constituted a rich and strong town. |
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Myron was born in Eleutherae, a small town on the border between Attica and Bocotia, and lived most of his life in Athens. |
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It only has onebest 50 place this year, with Melbourne-based Attica regained its 32nd spot. |
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Actually, the Aghia Paraskevi police station is in the same building as the North-East Attica Police Directorate. |
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It should be pointed out that growth in the demand for cement has been witnessed in the province of Attica, the site of the Olympic Games. |
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The European Union provides funding for projects relating to the water supply network in Attica. |
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The purpose of the arrangements applied in Greece is to avoid an excessive concentration of economic activity in Attica. |
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The suspension is excellent and it coped very well with the pre-Olympic roadworks around Athens, as it did on bumpy rural roads further out into Attica. |
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In the course of the last decade, a fair number of ancient rupestral horoi have been published from various sites in southern Attica. |
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The Greek authorities indicated that an extensive part of the country was affected by the fires, which were most intense and most widespread in the regions of Western Greece, the Peloponnese, Continental Greece and Attica. |
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As regards the specific case of the accident that occurred on the building site of a bridge on the Attica highway, the Greek authorities have set up an Inquiry Committee to establish the causes of this accident. |
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The yard is situated in Skaramanga, West of Athens, Attica. |
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As one of the autochthons of Attica i.e., literally sprung from its soil Cecrops was represented as human in the upper part of his body, while the lower part was shaped like a snake. |
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Chaplin founded a new production company, Attica, and used Shepperton Studios for the shooting. |
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In a few cases the estates of exiled aristocrats appear to have been broken up, but the major force in reducing aristocratic control over rural Attica seems to have been the regularization of government. |
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Acting on a proposal from Mr Bruce Millan, the Member with special responsibility for regional policies, the Commission recently adopted a programme for the development of the Attica region of Greece. |
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The event that precipitated the Attica uprising occurred on September 8, when an episode of horseplay between inmates in the prison yard was interpreted by guards as a serious fight. |
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Even the winners in the Olympic Games received a wild olive branch as their prize and Athena was established as goddess of Attica when she presented the tree as source of wealth. |
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Kythira is not part of the region of the Ionian Islands, as it is included in the region of Attica. |
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In an ironic development, wild elms have spread and taken over the grounds of the abandoned Greek royal summer palace at Tatoi in Attica. |
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For one, the agricultural evacuation of Attica was not as complete as it was to be after 413 when the Spartans occupied Decelea in northern Attica. |
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Saddle roof and pent roof, reinforcing existing Dachstuhlkonstukrion Attica covers. |
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There was one hero, however, who could be regarded as specially Athenian, and that was Theseus, to whom the original political synoecism of Attica was attributed even by a hardheaded writer like Thucydides. |
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Administratively today they belong to the Ionian Islands Region except for Kythera, which belongs to the Attica Region. |
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Pioneering this class of ferries was Attica Group, when it introduced Superfast I between Greece and Italy in 1995 through its subsidiary company Superfast Ferries. |
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In 396, he wiped out the last remnants of the Mysteries at Eleusis in Attica, ending a tradition of esoteric religious ceremonies that had lasted since the Bronze Age. |
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The major Mycenaean cities were Mycenae and Tiryns in Argolis, Pylos in Messenia, Athens in Attica, Thebes and Orchomenus in Boeotia, and Iolkos in Thessaly. |
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