Thespies (; before 1934: ''Erimókastro''Name changes of settlements in Greece
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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 ...

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

. A former municipality, which included the village, shared the same name. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Aliartos-Thespies Aliartos-Thespies (, until 2014: ''Aliartos'')Δ. Αλιάρτου ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 3,386 (2021). The municipal unit has an area of 108.152 km², the community 12.725 km². Thespies is named after the ancient city of

Thespiae Thespiae ( ; ) was an ancient Greek city (''polis'') in Boeotia. It sits at the foot of Mount Helicon and near right bank of the Thespius River (modern name Kanavari River). Thespiae was a Boeotian state sporadically involved in the military fe ...

. Thespies or then Erimokastro used to be an

Arvanite Arvanites (; Arvanitika: , or , ; Greek: , ) are a population group in Greece of Albanian origin. They are bilingual, traditionally speaking Arvanitika, an Albanian language variety, along with Greek. Their ancestors were first recorded ...

settlement of 1,095 people in 1907.

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Populated places in Boeotia Aliartos-Thespies {{CentralGreece-geo-stub