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Meaning of Mycenae | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

An ancient Greek city in the NE Peloponnesus on the plain of Argos, inhabited since about 4000 B.C.E.

Equivalents

Čeština Mykény
Deutsch Mykenä Mykene
Ελληνικά Μυκήνες
Español Micenas
Français mycènes
Magyar Mükéné
Italiano Micene
Polski mykeński Mykeny
Português Micenas
Русский Мике́ны

Examples

“1958, Alan John Bayard Wace, Elizabeth Bayard French, The Mycenae Tablets II, American Philosophical Society, page 1, The excavators of Mycenae added in 1953 and 1954 important new materials to the small but excellent archives of Mycenae.”
“1992 [Routledge], Richard Tomlinson, From Mycenae to Constantinople, 2003, Taylor & Francis e-Library, page 31, In 479 BC the citizen army of Mycenae marched to Plataea in Boeotia to join the other mainland Greek cities in inflicting the final defeat which terminated Xerxes' invasion of Greece.”
“The Prehistoric Cemetery at Mycenae provides our most coherent glimpse of the Middle Hellenic period at Mycenae.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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