Heraclea: Definition from Answers.com

Heraclea, Heracleia or Heraclia (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλεια) may refer to:

1 Places
2 Species
3 Notes

Places

Island

Heraclea (island) was the name of one of the Cyclades, between Naxos and IslandIos, today called Iraklia or Irakleia, and bears traces of a Greek township with temples to Tyche and Zeus Lophites

Ancient cities

The name of several Greek cities named after Heracles^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

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 in Trachis (also called Heraclea Trachinia); an ancient city situated south of the river Spercheios, to the west of Thermopylae

Modern places

Eraclea, Italy
see Irakleia for modern places in Greece

Species

Heraclia (moth); a specy of moth genus

Notes

^ Michael Avi Yonab, Israel Shatzman (1976), Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Classical World, Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Publishing House Ltd. SNB 562 000372 p 230
^ H. B. Walters (editor), (1916), A Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Biography, Geography and Mythology pp 480-481
^ Lauffer, Siegfried, (1989)Griechenland: Lexikon der historischen Stätten von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, München: C.H. Beck' sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Oscar Beck), ISBN 3406333028, pp 264-5
^ von Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider (Herausgebers) (editors), (1999) Der Neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike, Stuttgart; Weimar: J.B. Metzler'sche Verlags, Band (Vol.) 4, ISBN 3-476-01470-3, pp 364-7

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