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Decelea
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Decelea (Greek: Δεκέλεια), modern Dekeleia or Dekelia, Deceleia or Decelia, previous name Tatoi, was a previous source of supplies and trade route from Euboea, for Athens. The Spartans took control of Decelea in the early 410's. With advice from Alcibiades in 415 BCE, the former Athenian General wanted on Athenian charges of religious crimes, the Spartans fortified Decelea as a major Spartan army base in the later stage of the Peloponnesian War, giving them control of rural Attica and isolating Athens from food supplies delivered by land. Rural Attica was a primary land route for delivery of food sources such as livestock from Euboea to Athens, and this decimated Athens, which was concurrently being beaten in the Sicilian Expedition it had undertaken.
- Decelea by Jona Lendering
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