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Panactum or Panakton () was a fortress on the frontiers of
ancient Attica The regions of ancient Greece were sub-divisions of the Hellenic world as conceived by the ancient Greeks, shown by their presence in the works of ancient historians and geographers or in surviving legends and myths. Conceptually, there is no cl ...
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Boeotia Boeotia ( ), sometimes Latinisation of names, Latinized as Boiotia or Beotia (; modern Greek, modern: ; ancient Greek, ancient: ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of Central Greece (adm ...
. Ancient Athenians and Boeotians frequently fought over this. In 304 BC, Demetrius I Poliorketes took the fortress after a siege. The site of Panactum is located between modern Panakto and Prasino (formerly, Kavasala).


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Populated places in ancient Attica Former populated places in Greece Ancient Greek fortifications in Greece {{AncientAttica-geo-stub