Editing Boeotia (section)

===Boeotian League===
{{OSM Location map 
| coord = {{coord|38.34|23.233}}
|  zoom = 9
|   width = 375
|nolabels=1
|  height = 250
| mark-coord1 = {{coord|38|19|15|N|23|19|04|E}}
| label1 = Thebes (4)
| shape1=n-circle
| shape-color1=red
| shape-outline1=white
| label-color1 = black
|  label-pos1 = top
| mark-size1=18
| mark-coord2 = {{coord|38|29|N|22|59|E}}
| label2 = Orchomenus (1) 
| shape-color2=dark blue
|  label-pos2 = right
| mark-coord3 = {{coord|38.2224|N|23.3405|E}}
| label3 = Hysiae (1)
| shape-color3=dark blue
|  label-pos3 = bottom
| mark-coord4 = {{coord|38.28|N|23.56|E}}
| label4 = Tanagra (1)
|  label-pos4 = right
| shape-color4=dark blue
| mark-coord5 = {{coord|38|17|36|N|23|09|04|E}}
| label5 = Thespiae ({{frac|2|3}})
| shape-color5=dark green
| mark-coord6 = {{coord|38.259722|N|22.96835|E}}
| label6 = Thisbe ({{frac|2|3}})
| shape-color6=dark green
| mark-coord7 = {{coord|38.268249|N|23.20466|E}}
| label7 =Eutresis ({{frac|2|3}})
| shape-color7=dark green
|  label-pos7 = right
| mark-coord8 = {{coord|38.3783229064|23.0866042024 }}
| label8 =Haliartus ({{frac|1|3}})
| shape-color8=dark brown
| mark-coord9 = {{coord|38.4303396|22.8604735}}
| label9 =Lebadea ({{frac|1|3}})
| shape-color9=dark brown
| mark-coord10 = {{coord|38.391204|22.957112}}
|  label-pos9 = top
| label10 =Coronea ({{frac|1|3}})
|  label-pos10 = bottom
| shape-color10=dark brown
| mark-coord11 = {{coord|38.4526062|23.2197021}}
| label11 =Acraephia ({{frac|1|3}})
|  label-pos11 = right
| shape-color11=purple
| mark-coord12 = {{coord|38.501525|23.163285}}
| label12 =Copae ({{frac|1|3}})
| shape-color12=purple
| mark-coord13 = {{coord|38.49396775|22.8414259}}
| label13 =Chaeronea ({{frac|1|3}})
|  label-pos13 = top
| shape-color13=purple
| label14 =Plataea
| mark-coord14 = {{coord|38.2157303333|23.2718473333}}
|  label-pos14 = left
| shape-color14=black
| mark-size14=15
| label15 =Scolus
| mark-coord15 = {{coord|38.309378|23.38353}}
|  label-pos15 = right
| shape-color15=black
| mark-size15=15
| label16 =Erythrae
| mark-coord16 = {{coord|38.2332196667|23.3802696667}}
|  label-pos16 = right
| shape-color16=black
| mark-size16=15
| caption = Members of the Boeotian League with their number of Boeotarchs in brackets, 395&nbsp;BC. Members of the same colour with fractional numbers elected 1 or 2 Boeotarchs between them. Black: conquered by Thebes
}}
According to the [[Hellenica Oxyrhynchia]], in 395 BC the Boeotian League comprised eleven groups of sovereign cities and associated townships, each of which elected one [[Boeotarch]] or minister of war and foreign affairs, contributed sixty delegates to the federal council at Thebes, and supplied a contingent of about 1000 infantry and 100 cavalry to the federal army. A safeguard against undue encroachment on the part of the central government was provided in the councils of the individual cities, to which all important questions of policy had to be submitted for ratification. These local councils, to which the propertied classes alone were eligible, were subdivided into four sections, resembling the [[prytaneis]] of the Athenian council, which took it in turns to vote on all new measures.<ref name=EB1911/><ref>Thucydides (v. 38), in speaking of the "four councils of the Boeotians," is referring to the plenary bodies in the various states. (Chisholm 1911)</ref>

Two Boeotarchs were provided by Thebes, but by 395 BC Thebes was providing four Boeotarchs, including two who had represented places now conquered by Thebes such as Plataea, [[Scolus (Boeotia)|Scolus]], [[Erythrae (Boeotia)|Erythrae]], and [[Scaphae]]. [[Orchomenus (Boeotia)|Orchomenus]], [[Hysiae (Boeotia)|Hysiae]], and [[Tanagra]] each supplied one Boeotarch. [[Thespiae]], [[Thisbe (Boeotia)|Thisbe]], and [[Eutresis (Boeotia)|Eutresis]] supplied two between them. [[Haliartus]], [[Lebadea]] and [[Coronea]] supplied one in turn, and so did [[Acraephia (Boeotia)|Acraephia]], [[Copae]], and [[Chaeronea]].<ref>Nick Sekunda, The Ancient Greeks, p.27</ref>

The total military force of the Boiotian League (11,000 infantry and 1,100 cavalry) has been used as the basis for a number of calculations of the population of the region in the early fourth century BC. [[John Bintliff]] assumes an additional 21,000 light troops and rowers in the navy, for a total of 33,100 men. Assuming the same number of women, two children and one slave for every household, he estimates the total Boeotian population at 165,500 (including 33,100 slaves).<ref>Bintliff 1985, 141–43.</ref> [[Mogens Herman Hansen]] assumes an additional 12,100 light troops, for a total of 24,200 men in the army. He assumes that 25% of men were ineligible for military service, so his total population of men between the ages of twenty and fifty is 30,250. Using [[model life table]]s he calculates a total male citizen population of 72,240 and an equal number of women, for a minimum free population of 144,050, plus an unknown number of slaves and foreign residents. He proposes a maximum of 250,000. By comparison, the population of Boeotia was 38,000–50,000 in the late sixteenth century, according to [[Defter|tahrir]] records, 40,000–42,000 in the 1889 census, and 117,920 in the 2011 census.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hansen |first1=Mogens Herman |title=The shotgun method : the demography of the ancient Greek city-state culture |date=2006 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |location=Columbia |isbn=9780826216670 |pages=84–88}}</ref>