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image by Tomislav Šipek, 11 February 2022Aliartos-Thespies is a municipality in the Boeotia regional unit, Central Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Aliartos.
Although the municipality was founded in 2011 under the name Aliartos, in 2014 it was renamed to Aliartos-Thespies.
After the merger of two municipalities: Aliartos and Thespies into one in 2011, the municipality took the name Aliartos, but the municipality changed its name in 2014 to the current one: Aliartos-Thespies.
Tomislav Šipek, 11 February 2022
The municipality of Aliartos-Thespies (10,887 inhabitants in 2011; 25,651
ha) was formed in the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the two
former municipalities of Aliartos (6,094 inh.) and Thespies (4,792 inh.).
Aliartos is built on the site of the old town of Haliartus, where a famous
battle was taught during the Corinthian War.
While affairs in Asia were
handled as we have described, the Phocians went to war with the Boeotians
because of certain grievances and persuaded the Lacedaemonians to join them
against the Boeotians. At first they sent Lysander to them with a few soldiers,
who, on entering Phocis, gathered an army; but later the king, Pausanias, was
dispatched there with six thousand soldiers. The Boeotians persuaded the
Athenians to take part with them in the war, but at the time they took the field
alone and found Haliartus under siege by Lysander and the Phocians. In the
battle which followed Lysander fell together with many Lacedaemonians and their
allies. The entire body of other Boeotians speedily turned back from the
pursuit, but some two hundred Thebans advanced rather rashly into rugged terrain
and were slain. This was called the Boeotian War. Pausanias, the king of the
Lacedaemonians, on learning of the defeat, concluded a truce with the Boeotians
and led his army back to the Peloponnesus.
[Diodorus Siculus, _ Library_
14,81]
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0084:book=14:chapter=81
But the Thebans inside the city, drawn up in battle array with the
Haliartians, kept quiet for some time; when, however, they saw Lysander with his
foremost troops approaching the wall, they suddenly threw open the gate and fell
upon them, and killed Lysander himself with his soothsayer, and a few of the
rest; for the greater part of them fled swiftly hack to the main body. And when
the Thebans made no halt, but pressed hard upon them, the whole force turned to
the hills in flight, and a thousand of them were slain. Three hundred of the
Thebans also lost their lives by pursuing their enemies into rough and dangerous
places. These had been accused of favouring the Spartan cause, and in their
eagerness to clear themselves of this charge in the eyes of their
fellow-citizens, they exposed themselves needlessly in the pursuit, and so threw
away their lives.
[Plutarch, _ Lysander_ 28]
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0048%3Achapter%3D28
Ivan Sache, 18 February 2022
The flag of Aliartos-Thespies is white with a logo depicting two ancient coins.
Tomislav Šipek, 11 February 2022
The emblem features two ancient coins:
- left, the obverse of a silver
obol from Thespiae, featuring a Boeotian shield;
https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=41432
- right, the reverse a
stater from Haliartus, portraying the eponymous hero of Boeotia, Boeotus, son of
God Poseidon.
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/haliartus-stater-unknown
Ivan Sache, 18 February 2022