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Type Settlement
Scripts Θῆβαι(Ancient Greek)
Other Forms FormsModern Greek: Θήβα (Thiva)
Meaning & History
Perhaps ultimately from Semitic teba "chest, box". This is the name of a city in Boeotia, Greece, which played an important role in many Greek myths (as the site of the stories of Cadmus, Oedipus, Dionysus, Heracles and others).