Two important places in antiquity were called Thebes:

• Thebes, Greece – Thebes of the Seven Gates; one-time capital of Boeotia.
• Thebes, Egypt – Thebes of the Hundred Gates; one-time capital of the New Kingdom of Egypt.

The adjective related to both places is Theban. See also:

• The Theban Legion, martyred in the year 286.
• The Theban alphabet.

Thebes is the name of a place in the United States of America:

• Thebes, Illinois

Several other people, things and places have also shared the similar name Thebe, such as

• Hephaistio of Thebes a fourth-century astrologer

The Greek name of opium gives the name of thebaine.

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