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Sta·gi·ra

(stə-jī′rə) or Sta·gi·rus (-rəs)

An ancient city of Greek Macedonia. It was the birthplace of Aristotle.

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Stagira

(stəˈdʒaɪrə)

(Placename) an ancient city on the coast of Chalcidice in Macedonia: the birthplace of Aristotle

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Sta•gi•ra

(stəˈdʒaɪ rə)

also Sta•gi•ros

(-rəs, -rɒs)

n.

an ancient town in NE Greece, in Macedonia on the E Chalcidice peninsula: birthplace of Aristotle.

Stag•i•rite (ˈstædʒ əˌraɪt) n.

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Aristotle (384-322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in Stagira of Chalkidiki, next to the Macedon kingdom in the north part of the Greek world, at 384 BCE.

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Upon Natoli's sifting out much misinformation, what we do know for certain is that Aristotle was born 384/383 BC in Stagira, a small Greek polis, of a well-connected family.

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he accepted an invitation to supervise the education of the thirteen-year-old son of Philip II of Macedon, the future Alexander the Great, at the Macedonian court at Pella." After three years at Pella, Aristotle went to live at Stagira for five years and then he returned to Athens and opened a new school called the Lyceum.