Plataies

{{Infobox Greek Dimos

|name = Plataies

|name_local = Πλαταιές

|type = municipal unit

|image_map = DE Plateon.svg

|map_caption = Location within the regional unit

| periph = Central Greece

| periphunit = Boeotia

|municipality = Thebes

|pop_municunit = 3602

|pop_community = 832

|population_as_of = 2021

|area_municunit = 172.533

|area_community = 37.321

|elevation =

|coordinates = {{coord|38|14|N|23|13|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|postal_code =

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|licence = ΒΙ

|website =

|image_skyline = Plataea, seen from the south.jpg

|caption_skyline = Village of Plataies, near the ruins of old Plataea. Location of the 479 BCE Battle of Plataea.

}}

Plataies ({{langx|el|Πλαταιές}}), anciently Kokhla,{{cite book |last1=Perdicaris |first1=G. A. |title=The Greece of the Greeks |date=1846 |publisher=Paine & Burgess |page=127 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8X4_AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA127 |language=en}}19th century map{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=James Reuel |title=Springs and wells in Greek and Roman literature, their legends and locations |date=1922 |publisher=New York, G. P. Putnam's sons |page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924075437420/page/n233 198] |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924075437420}} is a village and a former municipality in Boeotia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Thebes, of which it is a municipal unit.{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.|title=ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities|language=el|publisher=Government Gazette}} The municipal unit has an area of 172.533 km2, the community 37.321 km2.{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf|publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece|title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)|language=el}} Population 3,602 (2021). The seat of the former municipality was in Kaparelli.

File:Πλαταιές.jpg

File:Ruins of Plataea.jpg

The village is next to the ruins of the ancient city of Plataea and near the site of the Battle of Plataea.

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Category:Populated places in Boeotia

Category:Thebes, Greece

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