Heraclea

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Heraclea , Heracleia or Heraclia may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 1.1 Island 1.2 Ancient cities 1.3 Modern places 2 Species

[edit] Places

[edit] Island

• Heraclea (island) was the name of one of the Sporades, between Naxos and Ios, which is still called Raklia, and bears traces of a Greek township with temples to Tyche and Zeus Lophites.

[edit] Ancient cities

• Heraclea Cybistra; an ancient city at Ereğli district, Konya Province of Turkey

• Heracleia by Latmus; an ancient city near Lake Bafa, at Kapıkırı village in Milas district, Muğla Province, Turkey

• Heraclea Lucania; an ancient city of the Lucanian district of southern Italy

• Heraclea Lyncestis; an ancient town founded by Philip II of Macedon near the modern town of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia

• Heraclea Minoa; an ancient town on the south coast of Sicily, Italy

• Heraclea Perinthus; an ancient city at Marmara Ereğli district of Tekirdağ Province, Turkey

• Heraclea Pontica; an ancient city at Karadeniz Ereğli in the Zonguldak Province of Turkey

• Heraclea Sintica; an ancient city in Thracian Macedonia, Bulgaria.

• Heraclea Trachinia; was a region and city in ancient Greece. Situated south of the river Spercheios, to the west of Thermopylae.

[edit] Modern places

• see Irakleia for modern places in Greece

[edit] Species

• Heraclia (moth); a specy of moth genus