(Βοιωτία, Βοιωτοί; Boiōtía, Boiōtoi).
A. Topography
Region and people in south-eastern Central Greece; with c. 2,500 km2 almost as large as Attica. Bounded in the south-west by the Corinthian Gulf and in the north-east and east by the Euboean Gulf, B. is the only land bridge between northern and southern Greece and was thus a battleground over and over again ( Chaeronea, Coronea, Plataeae). In the south the Parnes a…