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

Places

Heraclea (island) Irakleia or Heraklia ( el, Ηρακλειά; grc, Ἡράκλεια) is an island and a former 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 mu ...

, in the Aegean Sea, today called Iraklia or Irakleia

Ancient cities

In Asia

Heraclea Cybistra Heraclea Cybistra ( grc, Ἡράκλεια Κύβιστρα), 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 Prov ...

, Konya Province, Turkey **

Ereğli, Konya Ereğli is a city and district of Konya Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2009 census, the population of the district is 135,008 of which 95,056 live in the town of Ereğli. History The ancient town of Heraclea Cybi ...

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

Heraclea Pontica __NOTOC__ Heraclea Pontica (; gr, Ἡράκλεια Ποντική, Hērakleia Pontikē), known in Byzantine and later times as Pontoheraclea ( gr, Ποντοηράκλεια, Pontohērakleia), was an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asi ...

, Zonguldak Province, Turkey **

Karadeniz Ereğli Karadeniz Ereğli (or Ereğli) is a city and district in Zonguldak Province of Turkey on the Black Sea shore. Population of the city proper is 121,237 as of 2020. The mayor of the city is Halil Posbıyık. Mehmet Yapıcı is the District Governor ...

, 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 ( grc, Ἡράκλεια Σαλβάκη, Herakleia Salbake), Heraclea Salbaces (Ἡράκλεια Σαλβάκης - ''Herakleia Salbakes''), Heraclea ad Albanum (Ἡράκλεια πρὸς Ἀλβανῷ - ''Herakleia pros Albano ...

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

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(modern-day

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)

In Europe

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

Heraclea Lucania Heraclea, also Heracleia or Herakleia ( grc, Ἡράκλεια), was an ancient city of Magna Graecia. 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 ...

, Lucanian district of southern Italy * Heraclea Lyncestis, a town founded by Philip II of Macedon near the modern town of Bitola, North Macedonia *

Heraclea Minoa Heraclea Minoa ( grc-gre, Ἡράκλεια Μινῴα, ''Hērákleia Minṓia''; it, Eraclea Minoa) was an ancient Greek city situated on the southern coast of Sicily near the mouth of the river Halycus (modern Platani), 25 km west of A ...

, a town on the south coast of Sicily *

Heraclea Perinthus Perinthus or Perinthos ( grc, ἡ Πέρινθος) 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 22 miles west ...

, city of ancient Thrace, now in Tekirdağ Province, Turkey ** Marmara Ereğlisi, the modern city *

Heraclea Sintica Heraclea Sintica, Heracleia Sintica, Хераклея Синтика in Bulgarian or Herakleia Sintike ( grc, Ἡράκλεια Σιντική), or Heraclea ex Sintiis, also known as Heraclea Strymonus or Herakleia Strymonos (Ἡράκλεια Στ ...

, now in Bulgaria *

Heraclea in Trachis Heraclea (Herakleia) in Trachis ( grc, Ἡράκλεια ἡ ἐν Τραχῖνι), 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). Situ ...

(also called Heraclea Trachinia), south of the river Spercheios to the west of Thermopylae * Heraclea, ancient name of Saint-Tropez * Herakleia (Acarnania), a city in Acarnania *

Heraclea (Athamania) Heraclea, Heracleia, or Herakleia ( grc, Ἡράκλεια) 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 ( grc, Ἡράκλειον), also known as Heracleia or Herakleia (Ἡράκλεια), was a town in ancient Crete, which Strabo calls the port of Cnossus, and was situated, according to the anonymous coast-describer (Sta ...

, a town of ancient Crete *

Heraclea (Elis) Heraclea, Heracleia, or Herakleia ( grc, Ἡράκλεια) was a town of Pisatis in ancient Elis, distant 40 or 50 stadia from Olympia. It was but a village in the time of Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to: *Pausanias ...

, a city of ancient Elis *

Heraclea (Mygdonia) Heraclea or Herakleia ( grc, Ἡράκλεια) 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 pe ...

, a town in Mygdonia * , a place near

Erice Erice (; scn, Èrici) is a historic town and ''comune'' in the province of Trapani, Sicily, in southern Italy. Geography The main town of Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, at around above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the ...

, Sicily * , a place in Illyria, possibly on

Hvar Hvar (; Chakavian: ''Hvor'' or ''For'', el, Φάρος, Pharos, la, Pharia, it, Lesina) is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, located off the Dalmatian coast, lying between the islands of Brač, Vis and Korčula. Approximately long, wi ...

island

Modern places

* Eraclea, 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 Se ...

, various places in Greece

Other uses

* , a Roman Catholic titular archbishopric *

Heracleia (festival) The Heracleia ( grc-gre, Ἡράκλεια ἐν Κυνοσάργει ''Herakleia en Kynosargei'') were ancient festivals honoring the divine hero Heracles. The ancient Athenians celebrated the festival, which commemorated the death of Heracles, o ...

, ancient festivals honoring the divine hero Heracles * ''Heraclia'' (moth), a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae *

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, ...

in 280 BC between the Romans and a coalition of Greeks * The ''Heracleia'' of

Panyassis Panyassis of Halicarnassus, sometimes known as Panyasis ( grc, Πανύασις), 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 ( grc, Πο� ...

of Halicarnassus, a largely lost epic poem * The ''Heracleia'' of Peisander of Rhodes, recounting the Labours of Heracles {{disambiguation, geo