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Orchomenus (town)
Orchomenus
is an ancient city of
Boeotia
in
Greece
, which was the setting for many early
Greek Myths
. First mentioned in the
Catalogue of Ships[?]
section of
The Iliad
, it was the principal city of Boeotia and first to mint
coins
until the rise of
Thebes
. It was destroyed by the
Boeotian Confederacy[?]
in
364 BC
, and has remained little more than a village since.
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