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
The same was likewise the fate of the nation of Mariandynians in Heraclea on the Pontus, which city also was founded by the Megarians conjointly with the Bœotians.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
Heraclea Lyncestis appears to have been a late settlement.1931.Thuc.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
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)
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