Heraclea
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Heraclea , Heracleia or Heraclia may refer to:
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[edit] Places
[edit] Island
- Heraclea (island) was the name of one of the Cyclades, between Naxos and Ios, today called Iraklia or Irakleia, and bears traces of a Greek township with temples to Tyche and Zeus Lophites.
[edit] Ancient cities
The name of several Greek cities named after Heracles.[1][2][3][4]
- Heraclea Cybistra; an ancient city at Ereğli district, Konya Province of Turkey
- Heracleia by Latmus; an ancient city near Lake Bafa, at Kapıkırı village in Milas district, Muğla Province, Turkey
- Heraclea Lucania; an ancient city of the Lucanian district of southern Italy
- Heraclea Lyncestis; an ancient town founded by Philip II of Macedon near the modern town of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia
- Heraclea Minoa; an ancient town on the south coast of Sicily, Italy
- Heraclea Perinthus; an ancient city at Marmara Ereğli district of Tekirdağ Province, Turkey
- Heraclea Pontica; an ancient city at Karadeniz Ereğli in the Zonguldak Province of Turkey
- Heraclea Sintica; an ancient city in Thracian Macedonia, Bulgaria.
- Heraclea Trachinia; was a region and city in ancient Greece. Situated south of the river Spercheios, to the west of Thermopylae.
[edit] Modern places
[edit] Species
- Heraclia (moth); a specy of moth genus
[edit] Notes
- ^ Michael Avi Yonab, Israel Shatzman (1976), Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Classical World, Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Publishing House Ltd. SNB 562 000372 p 230
- ^ H. B. Walters (editor), (1916), A Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Biography, Geography and Mythology pp 480-481
- ^ Lauffer, Siegfried, (1989)Griechenland: Lexikon der historischen Stätten von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, München: C.H. Beck' sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Oscar Beck), ISBN 3406333028, pp 264-5
- ^ von Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider (Herausgebers) (editors), (1999) Der Neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike, Stuttgart; Weimar: J.B. Metzler'sche Verlags, Band (Vol.) 4, ISBN 3-476-01470-3, pp 364-7
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