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.
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  • Locality with 88,800 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 43 metres (141 feet)
  • …was formerly known as “Heraclea”
  • Description: ancient city of Bithynia in modern-day Turkey
  • Also known as
    “Bender Erekli”
    “Bender-Ereğli”
    “Ereğli”
    “Erekli”
    “Ergeli”
    “Heracleia Pontica”
    “Heraklea”
    “Karadenizereğlisi”
    “Mint of Heracleia Pontica”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Karadeniz Ereğli Museum and Cehennemağzı Caves.
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is a museum in Ereğli ilçe of , .
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The are a series of three quarries…
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gülüç.
is a town in Ereğli District, , . is situated 3½ km south of Heraclea Pontica.

Heraclea Pontica

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Latitude
41.2826° or 41° 16′ 57″ north
Longitude
31.4181° or 31° 25′ 5″ east
UN/LOCODE
TR ERE
Open location code
8GHH7CM9+26
Geo­Names ID
747471
Wiki­data ID
Q302511

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Heraclea Pontica” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بونتوهيراكليا”
  • 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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