Heraclea, Heracleia, Herakleia, or Heraclia () may refer to:

Places

Heraclea (island) Irakleia or Heraklia (; ) is an island and a former Communities and Municipalities of Greece, community in the Cyclades, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Naxos and Lesser Cyclades, of which it is a munic ...

, in the Aegean Sea, today called Iraklia or Irakleia

Ancient cities

In Asia

Heraclea Cybistra Heraclea Cybistra (), or simply Heraclea or Herakleia (Ἡράκλεια), also transliterated as Heracleia, was a town of ancient Cappadocia or Cilicia; located at the site of modern Ereğli in Konya Province, Turkey. History Middle Bronze ...

, Konya Province, Turkey **

Ereğli, Konya Ereğli is a municipality and district of Konya Province, Turkey. Its area is 2,214 km2, and its population is 150,978 (2022). Its elevation is . History The ancient town of Heraclea Cybistra (Ηράκλεια Κυβίστρα in Ancient Gre ...

, the modern city * Heraclea ad Latmum, near Lake Bafa, Turkey *

Heraclea Pontica Heraclea Pontica (; ; , ), known in Byzantine and later times as Pontoheraclea (), was an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor, at the mouth of the river Lycus. The site is now the location of the modern city Karadeniz Ereğli, in ...

, Zonguldak Province, Turkey **

Karadeniz Ereğli Karadeniz Ereğli (or Ereğli) is a city in Zonguldak Province of Turkey on the Black Sea shore. It is the seat of Ereğli District.

, the modern city * Heraclea (Aeolis), a place in Aeolis near Melampagos, Turkey * Heraclea (Lydia), a place in Lydia near Sipylus, Turkey *

Heraclea Salbace Heraclea Salbace (), Heraclea Salbaces (Ἡράκλεια Σαλβάκης - ''Herakleia Salbakes''), Heraclea ad Albanum (Ἡράκλεια πρὸς Ἀλβανῷ - ''Herakleia pros Albano''), or Heraclea Albace (Ἡράκλεια Ἀλβάκη ...

, a place in Caria near Mount Salbacus, Turkey * , a place in

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(modern-day

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

)

In Europe

* Heraclea (Thracian Chersonese), a town in the Thracian Chersonese, now in Turkey *

Heraclea Lucania Heraclea, also Heracleia or Herakleia (), was an ancient city. It was situated on the Gulf of Taranto between the rivers Aciris (modern Agri) and Siris (modern Sinni). The ruins of the city are located in the modern ''comune'' of Policoro in ...

, Lucanian district of southern Italy *

Heraclea Lyncestis Heraclea Lyncestis, also transliterated Herakleia Lynkestis (; ; ), was an Ancient Greek architecture, ancient Greek city in Macedon, ruled later by the Romans. Its ruins are situated south of the present-day town of Bitola, North Macedonia. In ...

, a town founded by Philip II of Macedon near the modern town of Bitola, North Macedonia *

Heraclea Minoa Heraclea Minoa (, ''Hērákleia Minṓia''; ) was an ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia situated on the southern coast of Sicily near the mouth of the river Halycus (modern Platani), 25 km west of Agrigentum (''Acragas'', modern Agrigento ...

, a town on the south coast of Sicily *

Heraclea Perinthus Perinthus or Perinthos () was a great and flourishing town of ancient Thrace, situated on the Propontis. According to John Tzetzes, it bore at an early period the name of Mygdonia (Μυγδονία). It lay west of Selymbria and west of Byzantiu ...

, city of ancient Thrace, now in Tekirdağ Province, Turkey **

Marmara Ereğlisi Marmara Ereğlisi (; ), also spelled Marmaraereğlisi, is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Tekirdağ Province, Turkey. Its area is 175 km2, and its population is 29,549 (2022). Facts Ereğli is 30 km east of the to ...

, the modern city *

Heraclea Sintica Heraclea Sintica (; ), also known as Heraclea Strymonike, was an ancient Greek city located near what is now the village of Rupite in south-western Bulgaria. History Heraclea Sintica was founded sometime between 356 and 339 BC by Philip II of ...

, now in Bulgaria *

Heraclea in Trachis Heraclea (Herakleia) in Trachis (), also called Heraclea Trachinia (), was a colony founded by the Spartans in 426 BC, the sixth year of the Peloponnesian War. It was also a polis (city-state). Situation Originally called Trachis (Τραχίς), ...

(also called Heraclea Trachinia), south of the river Spercheios to the west of Thermopylae * Heraclea, ancient name of

Saint-Tropez Saint-Tropez ( , ; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Var (department), Var departments of France, department and the regions of France, region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Southern France. It is west of Nice and east of Marseille, o ...

* Herakleia (Acarnania), a city in Acarnania *

Heraclea (Athamania) Heraclea, Heracleia, or Herakleia () was a fortress town of Athamania. References Populated places in ancient Epirus Former populated places in Greece Lost ancient cities and towns {{AncientEpirus-geo-stub ...

, a city of ancient Athamania *

Heracleia (Crete) Heracleium or Herakleion (), also known as Heracleia or Herakleia (Ἡράκλεια), or Heracleopolis was a town in ancient Crete, which Strabo calls the port of Knossos, and was situated, according to the anonymous coast-describer (Stadiasmus), ...

, a town of ancient Crete *

Heraclea (Elis) Heraclea, Heracleia, or Herakleia () was a town of Pisatis in ancient Elis Elis () or Eleia (; ; Elean: ; ) is an ancient district in Greece that corresponds to the modern regional unit of Elis. Elis is in southern Greece on the Pel ...

, a city of ancient Elis *

Heraclea (Mygdonia) Heraclea or Herakleia () was a town of Mygdonia in ancient Macedonia. It is mainly known by Greek epigraphic sources, the oldest of which belongs to the 4th century BCE and the rest are from the Hellenistic and Roman periods. It is also cited ...

, a town in Mygdonia * , a place near

Erice Erice (; ) is a (municipality) contiguous with the provincial capital Trapani, in western Sicily. Its historic core occupies the site of the ancient city of Eryx, one of the most significant archaeological and religious centres in pre-Roman w ...

, Sicily * , a place in

Illyria In classical and late antiquity, Illyria (; , ''Illyría'' or , ''Illyrís''; , ''Illyricum'') was a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by numerous tribes of people collectively known as the Illyrians. The Ancient Gree ...

, possibly on

Hvar Hvar (; Chakavian: ''Hvor'' or ''For''; ; ; ) is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, located off the Dalmatian coast, lying between the islands of Brač, Vis (island), Vis and Korčula. Approximately long, with a high east–west ridge of M ...

island

Modern places

Eraclea Eraclea () is a small city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, northern Italy. It is located on the Adriatic coast between the towns of Caorle and Jesolo. History From its founding until 742 AD, the Republic of Ven ...

, Italy *

Ereğli (disambiguation) Ereğli (formerly Erekli) is a Turkish toponym derived from Ancient Greek Ἡράκλεια (''Herakleia''), in Latin Heraclea or Heraclia, named after the hero-born god Heracles. It may refer to : * Karadeniz Ereğli, a city and its district in Zon ...

, various places in Turkey *

Irakleia (disambiguation) Irakleia (Ηράκλεια) may refer to several places in Greece: *Irakleia, Arta, a municipal unit in Arta regional unit *Irakleia, Elis, a village in Elis *Irakleia, Cyclades, an island in the Cyclades *Irakleia, Serres, a municipality in Serre ...

, various places in Greece

Other uses

Heracleia (festival) The Heracleia ( ''Herakleia en Kynosargei'') were ancient festivals honoring the divine hero Heracles. The ancient Athenians celebrated the festival, which commemorated the death of Heracles, on the second day of the month of Metageitnion (which w ...

, ancient festivals honoring the divine hero Heracles * ''Heracleia'', largely lost epic poem of

Panyassis Panyassis of Halicarnassus, sometimes known as Panyasis (), was a 5th-century BC Greek epic poet from Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey). Life Panyassis was the son of Polyarchus () from Halicarnassus, but the his ...

of Halicarnassus * ''Heracleia'', epic poem of

Peisander Peisander (; ) of Camirus in Rhodes, Ancient Greek epic poet, supposed to have flourished about 640 BC. Biography Peisander was the author of a ''Heracleia'' (Ἡράκλεια), in which he introduced a new conception of the hero Heracles' cost ...

of Rhodes recounting the Labours of Heracles * ''Heraclia'' (moth), a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae * ''Heraclia'' (plant), a taxonomic synonym for the genus ''Centaurea'' *

Battle of Heraclea The Battle of Heraclea took place in 280 BC between the Romans under the command of consul Publius Valerius Laevinus, and the combined forces of Greeks from Epirus, Tarentum, Thurii, Metapontum, and Heraclea under the command of Pyrrhus, ...