Heraclea ad Latmum/Pleistarcheia

settlement · 550 BC – 640 AD

A town of Caria located 25 km east of Miletos on the Ionian coast, Heraclea was located on the lower slopes of Mt. Latmos. Once a part of the Delian League, the city fell to Mausolos in the fourth century B.C. and his philhellene policy accounts for its change of name.

Heraclea ad Latmum/Pleistarcheia
Coordinates
37.50184, 27.52501
Also known as
Heraclea ad Latmum, Herakleia he upo Latmo (grc), Pleistarcheia, Ἡράκλεια ἡ ὑπὸ Λάτμῳ (grc)
Dating
attested

Sources

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