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N of Thebes, Greece: Monument to WW II resistance The plain of Thebes is a major cotton-producing area. It used to be a lake, but was deliberately drained in the early 20th c AD to prevent the spread of malaria. This area was the stronghold of the Bronze-age Myceneans. Thebes was the home of Oedipus. We also stopped by the Monument to Greek Resistance in WW II. We came into Orchomenos, a small village. In the 15th c BC the people of Orchomenos had a sophisticated hydraulic system to raise and lower the lake by siphoning it out to natural deep caverns through a channel that could be plugged with a big rock (navel).