While in an alliance with Argos, this city lost the Battle of Coronea to Agesilaus II, although at the start of that conflict this city defeated Sparta at the Battle of Haliartus and killed Lysander.
With the help of Archbishop Simon Atumano, Juan de Urtubia was able to wrest control of this city from the Catalan Company in the fourteenth century. While in an alliance with Argos, this city lost the Battle of Coronea to Agesilaus II, although at the start of that conflict this city defeated Sparta at the Battle of Haliartus and killed Lysander. This city won a pyrrhic victory at the Battle of Mantinea, at which three of its generals died, one of whom had earlier pioneered the use of the oblique order tactic in the Battle of Leuctra. At the Battle of Chaeronea, this city's Sacred Band was finally defeated at the hands of Phillip II and Alexander the Great. For 10 points, name this city in Boetia, the most powerful Greek city-state prior to the death of its general Epaminondas and the subsequent conquest by Macedonia.
With the help of Archbishop Simon Atumano, Juan de Urtubia was able to wrest control of this city from the Catalan Company in the fourteenth century.
Thebes