Perinthus
Sign in to savePerinthus (), also known as Heraclea (), was an ancient city located in what is now Marmara Ereğlisi, Turkey. It was a great and flourishing town of ancient Thrace, situated on the Propontis. According to John Tzetzes, it bore at an early period the name of Mygdonia (Μυγδονία). It lay west of Selymbria and west of Byzantium, on a small peninsula of the bay which bears its name, and was built like an amphitheatre, on the declivity of a hill. Its site is near modern Marmara Ereğlisi, in Turkey.
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- Ancient site.name
- Perinthus
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Heraclea ()
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- Turkey Marmara#Turkey#Balkans
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- 250
- Ancient site.location
- Marmara Ereğlisi, Tekirdağ, Turkey
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.built
- 602 BC
- Ancient site.condition
- Ruined
- Ancient site.public_access
- Yes
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Perinthus (), also known as Heraclea (), was an ancient city located in what is now Marmara Ereğlisi, Turkey. It was a great and flourishing town of ancient Thrace, situated on the Propontis. According to John Tzetzes, it bore at an early period the name of Mygdonia (Μυγδονία). It lay west of Selymbria and west of Byzantium, on a small peninsula of the bay which bears its name, and was built like an amphitheatre, on the declivity of a hill. Its site is near modern Marmara Ereğlisi, in Turkey.
== History == Perinthus was founded by colonists from the island of Samos in 602 BC. It was particularly renowned for its obstinate defence against Philip II of Macedon. At that time it appears to have been a more important and flourishing town even than Byzantium and being both a harbour and a point at which several main roads met, it was the seat of extensive commerce. This circumstance explains the reason why so many of its coins are still extant from which we learn that large and celebrated festivals were held here. Perinthus was renamed to Heraclea in 286 AD during the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian. It was sometimes called Heraclea Thraciae and Heraclea Perinthus.
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