Heraclea
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Heraclea, Heracleia or Heraclia may refer to:
Ancient cities
- Heraclea CybistraHeraclea CybistraHeraclea Cybistra , under the name Cybistra, had some importance in Hellenistic times owing to its position near the point where the road to the Cilician Gates enters the hills. It lay in the way of armies and was more than once sacked by the Arab invaders of Asia Minor...
, Konya Province, Turkey - Heracleia by LatmusLatmusBeşparmak Mountains is a ridge of many spurs running in an east-west direction along the north shore of the former Latmian Gulf on the coast of Caria, which became part of Hellenised Ionia. The city of Latmus, located on the south slopes of Mount Latmus east of Miletus, was originally a port on...
, near Lake Bafa, Turkey - Heraclea Lucania, Lucanian district of southern Italy
- Heraclea LyncestisHeraclea LyncestisHeraclea Lyncestis also spelled Herakleia Lynkestis was an ancient Greek city in the north-western region of the ancient kingdom of Macedon. It was founded by Philip II of Macedon in the middle of the 4th century BC in Lynkestis, after its conquest. The town was named in honor of the mythological...
, a town founded by Philip II of Macedon near the modern town of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia - Heraclea MinoaHeraclea MinoaHeraclea Minoa , in Sicily, was an ancient Greek city, situated on the south coast of the island, at the mouth of the river Halycus , 25 km west of Agrigentum , near modern Montallegro...
l, a town on the south coast of Sicily - Heraclea Perinthus (Marmara Ereğlisi), Tekirdağ Province, Turkey, ancient episcopal See
- Heraclea PonticaHeraclea PonticaHeraclea Pontica , an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor, at the mouth of the river Lycus. It was founded by the Greek city-state of Megara c.560-558 and was named after Heracles who the Greeks believed entered the underworld at a cave on the adjoining Archerusian promontory .The...
, Zonguldak Province, Turkey - Heraclea SinticaHeraclea SinticaHeraclea Sintica was an ancient Greekcity in Thracian Macedonia, to the south of the Struma River, the site of which is marked by the village of Rupite, Bulgaria, and which was identified by the discovery of local coins....
, in Thracian Macedonia - Heraclea in TrachisHeraclea in TrachisHeraclea in Trachis, also called Heraclea Trachinia, was a colony founded by the Lacedaemonians in the sixth year of the Peloponnesian War in 426 B.C. It was located four miles west of Thermopylae, and about 2 miles south of the Malian Gulf. The object of this colony was to assist the Trachinians,...
(also called Heraclea Trachinia), south of the river Spercheios to the west of Thermopylae - Heraclea, ancient name of Saint-TropezSaint-TropezSaint-Tropez is a town, 104 km to the east of Marseille, in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. It is also the principal town in the canton of Saint-Tropez....
Other uses
- The Heracleia of PeisanderPeisanderPeisander of Camirus in Rhodes, Ancient Greek epic poet, supposed to have flourished about 640 BC.He was the author of a Heracleia - Ἡράκλεια, in which he introduced a new conception of the hero Heracles costume, the lions skin and club taking the place of the older armor of the heroic era. He is...
of Rhodes, recounting the Labours of Heracles - Heraclia (moth)Heraclia (moth)Heraclia is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.-Species:* Heraclia abacata * Heraclia aemulatrix * Heraclia africana * Heraclia aisha...
, a species of moth - Battle of HeracleaBattle of HeracleaThe Battle of Heraclea took place in 280 BC between the Romans under the command of Consul Publius Valerius Laevinus and the combined forces of Greeks from Epirus, Tarentum, Thurii, Metapontum, and Heraclea under the command of King Pyrrhus of Epirus....
in 280 BC between the Romans and a coalition of Greeks