Heraclea
Heraclea, Heracleia or Heraclia (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλεια) may refer to:
Places
- Heraclea (island), in the Aegean Sea, today called Iraklia or Irakleia
Ancient cities
- Heraclea Cybistra, Konya Province, Turkey
- Ereğli, Konya, the modern city
- 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 Minoa, a town on the south coast of Sicily
- Heraclea Perinthus, Tekirdağ Province, Turkey
- Marmara Ereğlisi, the modern city
- Heraclea Pontica, Zonguldak Province, Turkey
- Karadeniz Ereğli, the modern city
- 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
Modern places
- Eraclea, Italy
- Ereğli (disambiguation), various places in Turkey
- Irakleia (disambiguation), various places in Greece
Other uses
- 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
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