Heraclea
Americannoun
noun
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Just outside town, we toured the amazing Heraclea Lyncestis, a once-thriving Roman settlement along the Via Egnatia, a trading road built by the Romans in the 2nd century B.C.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2016
Venues will include Wittenberg in Germany, the Roman theatres of Philippopolis in Bulgaria and Heraclea in Macedonia, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington and the Mayan ruins of Copan in Honduras.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2014
Heraclea Minoa, an ancient town on the south coast of Sicily, at the mouth of the river Halycus, near the modern Montallegro, some 20 m.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
Thus he is represented as contending for the territory of Heraclea on the Pontus, against the aboriginal Bebryces, and in defence of Cyrene against the native Libyans.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
Cleandridas exiled from Sparta, founds Heraclea with Tarentines, b.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
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