Chaeronea (English: /ˌkaɪrəˈniːə/ or /ˌkɛrəˈniːə/;[2] Greek: ΧαιρώνειαChaironeia, Ancient Greek:[kʰai̯rɔ̌ːneːa]) is a village and a former municipality in Boeotia, Greece, located about 35 kilometers east of Delphi. The settlement was formerly known as Kópraina (Κόπραινα), and renamed to Chairóneia (Χαιρώνεια) in 1916.[3] Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Livadeia, of which it is a municipal unit.[4] The municipal unit has an area of 111.445 km2, the community is 26.995 km2.[5] Population 993 (2021). It is located near Mount Thourion in the Cephissus river valley, NW of Thebes.
^"Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
^Frank H. Vizetelly, A Desk-Book of Twenty-five Thousand Words Frequently Mispronounced (New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1917), p. 252.
^"ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
^"Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-21.
Chaeronea (English: /ˌkaɪrəˈniːə/ or /ˌkɛrəˈniːə/; Greek: Χαιρώνεια Chaironeia, Ancient Greek: [kʰai̯rɔ̌ːneːa]) is a village and a former municipality...
been fought at or near Chaeronea in Boeotia: Battle of Coronea (394 BC), a Spartan victory in the Corinthian War Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), the victory...
in 371 BC. It was annihilated by Philip II of Macedon in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC. The earliest surviving record of the Sacred Band by name was...
Πλούταρχος). Plutarch was born to a prominent family in the small town of Chaeronea, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Delphi, in the Greek region of Boeotia...
The Order of Chaeronea was a secret society for the cultivation of a homosexual moral, ethical, cultural, and spiritual ethos. Founded by George Cecil...
and Hyampolis to Chaeronea, where the invaders would be poised to attack both Orchomenus and Coronea. Having gained control of Chaeronea, Orchomenus and...
of Chaeronea, after the battle of the same name where the male lovers of the Sacred Band of Thebes were killed in 338 BC. The Order of Chaeronea's "rules...
Chaeronea railway station (Greek: Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Χαιρώνειας, romanized: Sidirodromikós stathmós Cheroneia) is a railway station situated 1.7 kilometres...
marched south, his opponents blocked him near Chaeronea, Boeotia. During the ensuing Battle of Chaeronea, Philip commanded the right wing and Alexander...
over a Greek coalition army led by Athens and Thebes, at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC. In the aftermath the federation of Greek states known as the...
defeating the Greek city-states of Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, Philip II led the effort to establish a federation of Greek...
Piraeus, and landed in Boeotia, where he was defeated at the Battle of Chaeronea. Sulla's army took Athens on the Kalends of March, in the consulship of...
spirit of a murderer, Damon, who himself was murdered in a bathhouse in Chaeronea. Pliny the Younger (61 to c. 113) tells the tale of Athenodorus Cananites...
held in esteem, and the main branch of his lineage was established in Chaeronea, which was the first city they occupied, expelling the barbarians from...
Philip defeated a combined Theban and Athenian army at the Battle of Chaeronea after a decade of desultory conflict. In the aftermath, Philip formed...
Chaeron, who was famed as "the tamer of horses". He later built the city Chaeronea. Hyrie or Thyrie was the mother of Cycnus. Apollo turned both the mother...
Isocrates in 346 BC to unify Greece against the Persians. After the Battle of Chaeronea, the League of Corinth was formed and controlled by Philip. Alexander...
erected by Philip II of Macedon in celebration of his victory at Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC). Heckel, Waldemar (2006). Who's who in the age of Alexander the...
summer of 86 BC, two major battles were fought in Boeotia. The Battle of Chaeronea was fought in early summer around the same time the Athenian Acropolis...
Plutarch, in the 1st century AD, described the haunting of the baths at Chaeronea by the ghost of a murdered man. The ghost's loud and frightful groans...
the phalanx of the Athenian and Theban confederates into a plain near Chaeronea, where he defeated them. Demosthenes fought as a mere hoplite.[i] Such...
under Philip II. In 338 BC, he defeated a Greek alliance at the Battle of Chaeronea, and subsequently formed the League of Corinth. Philip planned to lead...
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