Heraclea
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Heraclea, Heracleia or Heraclia (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλεια) may refer to:
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[edit] Places
- Heraclea (island), in the Aegean Sea, today called Iraklia or Irakleia
[edit] Ancient cities
- Heraclea Cybistra, Konya Province, Turkey
- Heracleia by Latmus, near Lake Bafa, Turkey
- Heraclea Lucania, Lucanian district of southern Italy
- Heraclea Lyncestis, a town founded by Philip II of Macedon near the modern town of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia
- Heraclea Minoal, a town on the south coast of Sicily
- Heraclea Perinthus (Marmara Ereğlisi), Tekirdağ Province, Turkey, ancient episcopal See
- Heraclea Pontica, Zonguldak Province, Turkey
- Heraclea Sintica, in Thracian Macedonia
- Heraclea in Trachis (also called Heraclea Trachinia), south of the river Spercheios to the west of Thermopylae
- Heraclea, ancient name of Saint-Tropez
[edit] Modern places
- Eraclea, Italy
- Irakleia (disambiguation), various places in Greece
[edit] Other uses
- The Heracleia of Peisander of Rhodes, recounting the Labours of Heracles
- Heraclia (moth), a species of moth
- Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC between the Romans and a coalition of Greeks
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