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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Example Sentences

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

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

Venues for the two-year project 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

But Cheek mentioned that as his team lost the match by about 50 imps, it was a Pyrrhic victory — if much less serious than the original victories by the army of King Pyrrhus of Epirus against the Romans at Heraclea in 280 B.C. and Asculum in 279 B.C.

From New York Times

We hear that Heraclea surrendered under compulsion to Hannibal in 212 B.C. and that in the Social war the public records were destroyed by fire.

From Project Gutenberg