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 • 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

Xenophon embarked his little troop at Heraclea, and went to make a new bargain with a king of Thrace, to whom he was a stranger.

From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)

Heraclea, a town on the borders of Caria and Ionia, near the foot of Mount Latmus.

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 Müller, Karl Otfried