Heraclea

Heraclea, Heracleia, Herakleia, or Heraclia (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλεια) may refer to:

Places

• Heraclea (island), in the Aegean Sea, today called Iraklia or Irakleia

Ancient cities

in Asia

• Heraclea Cybistra, Konya Province, Turkey
  • Ereğli, Konya, the modern city
• Heracleia by Latmus, near Lake Bafa, Turkey
• Heraclea Perinthus, Tekirdağ Province, Turkey
  • Marmara Ereğlisi, the modern city
• Heraclea Pontica, Zonguldak Province, Turkey
  • Karadeniz Ereğli, the modern city
• Heraclea by Melampagos, a place in Aeolis near Melampagos
• Heraclea by Lesbos, a place near modern-day Ayvalık, opposite of Lesbos
• Heraclea by Salbacus, a place in Caria near Mount Salbacus
• Heraclea (Media), a place in Media (modern-day Iran)

in Europe

• 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 Minoa, a town on the south coast of Sicily
• 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
• Herakleia (Acarnania), a city in Acarnania
• Heraclea (Athamania), a city of ancient Athamania
• Heraclea (Elis), a city of ancient Elis
• Heraclea (Mygdonia), a place in Mygdonia
• Heraclea by Erice, a place near Erice, Sicily
• Heraclea (Illyria), a place in Illyria, possibly on Hvar island

Modern places

• Eraclea, Italy
• Ereğli (disambiguation), various places in Turkey
• Irakleia (disambiguation), various places in Greece

Other uses

• Heraclea in Europa, a Roman Catholic titular archbishopric
• Heracleia (festival), ancient festivals honoring the divine hero Heracles
• Heraclia (moth), a species of moth
• Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC between the Romans and a coalition of Greeks
• The Heracleia of Peisander of Rhodes, recounting the Labours of Heracles