Heraclea at Latmus
Heraclea at Latmus or Heraclea under Latmus, or simply Heraclea or Herakleia, also transliterated as Heracleia, was an ancient town situated at the western foot of Mount Latmus, on the border between Caria and Ionia in southwestern Asia Minor.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient city of Caria in modern-day Turkey
- Also known as: “Heraclea ad Latmum” and “Heraclea by Latmus”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Yediler Monastery.
Yediler Monastery
Archaeological site
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Yediler Monastery is an archaeological site, which is situated 3 km east of Heraclea at Latmus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kapıkırı and Pınarcık.
Pınarcık
Village
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Pınarcık is a neighbourhood of Milas in Turkey. Pınarcık is situated 6 km south of Heraclea at Latmus.
Köprüalan
Village
Köprüalan is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Söke, Aydın Province, Turkey. Its population is 92. Köprüalan is situated 7 km north of Heraclea at Latmus.
Heraclea at Latmus
- Categories: heritage, human settlement, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Milas, Muğla Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Turkish—“Heraclea at Latmus” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Herakleia”
- Catalan: “Heraclea del Latmos”
- Catalan: “Heracleia Latmus”
- French: “Héraclée du Latmos”
- German: “Herakleia am Latmos”
- German: “Pleistarcheia”
- Greek: “Ηράκλεια επί Λάτμον”
- Italian: “Eraclea al Latmo”
- Serbian: “Хераклеја код Латма”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Herakleja kod Latma”
- Spanish: “Heraclea del Latmos”
- Turkish: “Heracleia ad Latmum”
- Turkish: “Heracleia”
- Turkish: “Herakleia”
- Turkish: “Latmos Herakleia’sı”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Heraclea at Latmus”. Photo: Wolfgang glock, Public domain.