Heraclea (Mygdonia)
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.711, 22.735
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient town in Macedonia, Greece
History
Heraclea or Herakleia 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 periods. It is also cited by Stephanus of Byzantium, who places it in Kingdom of Macedonia.