Thebes
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Two important places in antiquity were called Thebes:
- Thebes, Greece – Thebes of the Seven Gates; one-time capital of Boeotia.
- Thebes, Egypt – Thebes of the Hundred Gates; one-time capital of the New Kingdom of Egypt.
The adjective related to both places is Theban. See also:
- The Theban Legion, martyred in the year 286.
- The Theban alphabet.
Thebes is the name of a place in the United States of America:
Several other people, things and places have also shared the similar name Thebe, such as
- Hephaistio of Thebes a fourth-century astrologer
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