Heraclea

American  

[her-uh-klee-uh] / ˌhɛr əˈkli ə /

noun

1. an ancient city in S Italy, near the Gulf of Taranto: Roman defeat 280 b.c.

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Heraclea British  

/ ˌhɛrəˈkliːə /

noun

1. any of several ancient Greek colonies. The most famous is the S Italian site where Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated the Romans (280 _bc )

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Heraclea

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

Dorieus goes to Sicily, and founds Heraclea, but falls in a battle against the Carthaginians and Egestæans.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

Heraclea Sintica, a town in Thracian Macedonia, to the south of the Strymon, the site of which is marked by the village of Zervokhori, and identified by the discovery of local coins.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

Niebuhr, in the 3rd vol. of his Roman history, considers the Cleandridas, who took a part in the foundation of Heraclea, as the same person as Leandrias the Spartan, who, according to Diod.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

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