• Decelea (Ancient Greek: Δεκέλεια, Greek pronunciation: [ðe.ˈce.ʎa]), Dekéleia), was a deme and ancient village in northern Attica serving as a trade route...
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    Athens. Strabo assigns these the names of Cecropia, Tetrapolis, Epacria, Decelea, Eleusis, Aphidna, Thoricus, Brauron, Cytherus, Sphettus, Cephisia, and...
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    Noctuoidea Family: Noctuidae Genus: Cropia Species: C. indigna Binomial name Cropia indigna (Walker, [1858]) Synonyms Decelea indigna Walker, [1858]...
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    Alcibiades played a significant role in Athens's undoing; the capture of Decelea and the revolts of several critical Athenian subjects occurred either at...
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  • Decelea is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database v t e...
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    Family: Noctuidae Genus: Cropia Species: C. subapicalis Binomial name Cropia subapicalis (Walker, [1858]) Synonyms Decelea subapicalis Walker, [1858]...
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  • from the Attica deme of Pallene according to Herodotus, or of that of Decelea according to Plutarch. He distinguished himself at the battle of Salamis...
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    they fortified Decelea, near Athens, and prevented the Athenians from making use of their land year round. The fortification of Decelea prevented overland...
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    Syracuse and also fortify Decelea near Athens. The Athenians, he said, feared nothing more than the occupation of Decelea. The Spartans took this advice...
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  • should be publicized in both Athens and Decelea, probably as a result of significant phratry migration from Decelea to Athens during the Peloponnesian War...
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  • of 413 BC, Agis entered Attica with a Peloponnesian army, and fortified Decelea; and in the winter of the same year, after the news of the disastrous fate...
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    to ancient times, when it was under the ancient demes of Acharnae and Decelea. Towns surrounding the mountain include Aspropyrgos, Fyli, Acharnes, Varymbombi...
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    (414–413 BC) Arrival of Gylippus at Syracuse. 7.1–7.3 Fortification of Decelea. 7.19–7.30 Successes of the Syracusans. Arrival of Demosthenes Defeat of...
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  • citizens starved. After the Spartans began cutting them off by occupying Decelea, the Athenians decided to surrender in March 404 BC. After initial negotiations...
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    5th century, the output fell, partly owing to the Spartan occupation of Decelea. But the mines continued to be worked, though Strabo records that in his...
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    Thucydides remarked on the desertion of 20,890 slaves during the war of Decelea, mostly tradesmen. The lowest estimate, of 20,000 slaves, during the time...
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    mine-workers and artisans, escaped to the Spartans when their army camped at Decelea in 413 BC.[citation needed] Other than flight, resistance on the part of...
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    Tatoi Airport (ICAO: LGTT) is an airport located north of Athens, in Decelea. It started operating in 1918 and it now has a single runway with a length...
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  • 23°33′54″E / 38.3396°N 23.5651°E / 38.3396; 23.5651 (LGTG) Tatoi, Decelea Attica LGTT --- Tatoi Airport 38°06′31″N 23°47′01″E / 38.1085°N 23.7835°E...
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  • and persuades them to send Gylippus to assist Syracuse and to fortify Decelea in Attica. He also encourages Ionia to revolt against Athens. As a result...
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    central to the strategy of both sides. The Spartans occupied a fort at Decelea in Attica in 413 BC, and placed a force there that posed a year-round threat...
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    the men who killed him, during the Battle of Salamis, were Ameinias of Decelea (according to Herodotus he was from Pallene) and Socles (Σωκλῆς) of Pallene...
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  • Ancient name Location Modern name Also known as Decelea (Δεκέλεια) Attica, Greece Dekeleia, Dekelia, Deceleia, Decelia, Tatoi Delos Cyclades, Greece Dhilos...
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  • the gates of Athens. King Agis II leads the Spartan force that occupies Decelea in Attica. Archelaus I becomes King of Macedonia following the death of...
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    Bureau Numbers (BuNo). On display SB2C-5 83321 - Hellenic Air Force Museum, Decelea Air Base. On display SB2C-5 83410 - Royal Thai Air Force Museum, Don Muang...
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  • dispatched an embassy to Athens, offering to surrender the Spartan fort at Decelea in return for peace on the basis of the status quo in the Aegean. The proposal...
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  • of 411 BC, he and several of his supporters left the city and went to Decelea and took refuge with Agis II, the king of Sparta. However, later he was...
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    Sparta to send Gylippus to conduct the defence of Syracuse, to fortify Decelea in northern Attica, and to adopt a vigorous policy of aiding Athenian allies...
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  • Coeratadas managed to escape into the crowd, and made his way safely to Decelea. In 400 BC, when the Cyrean Greeks arrived at Byzantium, Coeratadas, who...
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    century BCE the output fell, partly owing to the Spartan occupation of Decelea from c. 413 BCE. But the mines continued to be worked, though Strabo (c...
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