Heraclea Pontica
Heraclea Pontica, known in Byzantine and later times as Pontoheraclea, was an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor, at the mouth of the river Lycus.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 88,800 residents
- Description: ancient city of Bithynia in modern-day Turkey
- Also known as: “Bender Erekli”, “Bender-Ereğli”, “Eregli”, “Ereğli”, “Erekli”, “Ergeli”, “Heraklea”, and “Karadenizereğlisi”
- Historically known as: “Bender Eregli” and “Heraclea”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karadeniz Ereğli Museum and Cehennemağzı Caves.
Karadeniz Ereğli Museum
Museum
Karadeniz Ereğli Museum is a museum in Ereğli ilçe of Zonguldak Province, Turkey. The modifier Karadeniz is used to distinguish Ereğli in Zonguldak Province from another similar-named ilçes in Konya and Tekirdağ Provinces.
Cehennemağzı Caves
Cave
Photo: Oğuz67, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cehennemağzı Caves are a series of three quarries lined side by side, in the Karadeniz Ereğli district of Zonguldak Province, northern Turkey. One of the quarries was used as a church in early Christianity, in other words mining was abandoned before.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gülüç.
Gülüç
Village
Gülüç is a town in Ereğli District, Zonguldak Province, Turkey. Its population is 8,271. It is on the shore of the Black Sea, at the mouth of the Gülüç River. It is contiguous with the city of Karadeniz Ereğli. Gülüç is adjacent to the Erdemir steel plant. Gülüç is situated 3½ km south of Heraclea Pontica.
Heraclea Pontica
- Categories: archaeological site and polis
- Location: Karadeniz Ereğli, Zonguldak Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Heraclea Pontica” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هيراكليا بونتيكا”
- Basque: “Heraklea Pontika”
- Belarusian: “Гераклея Пантыйская”
- Bulgarian: “Хераклея Понтика”
- Catalan: “Claudiòpolis”
- Catalan: “Heraclea Pòntica”
- Chinese: “本都的赫拉克利亚”
- Chinese: “赫拉克利亚·庞蒂卡”
- Chinese: “赫拉克利亚·潘提卡”
- Chinese: “赫拉克利亚蓬提刻”
- Chinese: “赫拉克利亞·潘提卡”
- Chinese: “赫拉克里亚·庞提卡”
- Czech: “Hérakleia Pontiké”
- Danish: “Heraclea Pontica”
- Dutch: “Heraclea Pontica”
- Finnish: “Herakleia Pontike”
- French: “Héraclée du Pont”
- Galician: “Heraclea Póntica”
- Georgian: “პონტოს ჰერაკლეა”
- Georgian: “ჰერაკლეა პონტიკა”
- German: “Herakleia Pontike”
- Greek: “Ηράκλεια η Ποντική”
- Hebrew: “פונטוס”
- Hungarian: “Hérakleia Pontiké”
- Indonesian: “Heraklea Pontika”
- Italian: “Eraclea Pontica”
- Japanese: “ヘラクレア・ポンティカ”
- Korean: “헤라클레이아 폰티카”
- Latin: “Heraclea Pontica”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Heraklea Pontika”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Eraclèa Pontica”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Eraclia Pontica”
- Polish: “Heraklea Pontyjska”
- Portuguese: “Heracleia Pôntica”
- Romanian: “Heraclea Pontica”
- Russian: “Гераклея Понтийская”
- Russian: “Эрегли”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Herakleja Pontska”
- Slovenian: “Heraclea Pontica”
- Slovenian: “Pontska Herakleja”
- Spanish: “Heraclea Pontica”
- Spanish: “Heraclea Póntica”
- Swedish: “Heraclea Pontica”
- Turkish: “Heraclea Pontica”
- Turkish: “Heraclea”
- Turkish: “Heraklea Pontica”
- Turkish: “Herakleia Pontiki”
- Turkish: “Karadeniz Ereğlisi”
- Ukrainian: “Гераклея Понтійська”
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