Heraclea

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

Places

• Heraclea (island), in the Aegean Sea, today called Iraklia or Irakleia

Ancient cities

• Heraclea Cybistra, Konya Province, Turkey
• Heracleia by Latmus, near Lake Bafa, Turkey
• Heraclea Lucania, Lucanian district of southern Italy
• Heraclea Lyncestis, a town founded by Philip II of Macedon near the modern town of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia
• Heraclea Minoa, a town on the south coast of Sicily
• Heraclea Perinthus (Marmara Ereğlisi), Tekirdağ Province, Turkey, ancient episcopal See
• Heraclea Pontica, Zonguldak Province, Turkey
• Heraclea Sintica, in Thracian Macedonia
• Heraclea in Trachis (also called Heraclea Trachinia), south of the river Spercheios to the west of Thermopylae
• Heraclea, ancient name of Saint-Tropez

Modern places

• Eraclea, Italy
• Irakleia (disambiguation), various places in Greece

Other uses

• Heracleia (festival), ancient festivals honoring the divine hero Heracles
• Heraclia (moth), a species of moth
• Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC between the Romans and a coalition of Greeks
• The Heracleia of Peisander of Rhodes, recounting the Labours of Heracles