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	Classical Views \| 1996 \| No. 1 \| V. P. BYLKOVA
		Fragments of amphoras from Thasos, Heraclea Pontica and Mende, which were contemporary with those of the Chian "new style," were found in approximately equal quantity.
		According to their shape and stamps, the overwhelming majority of amphoras of Heraclea Pontica (fig.
		Desolation of the chora in the third century B.C. and the revival of the agricultural territory in the first century B.C. are observed not only in Olbia Pontica but also in different coastal areas of the Black Sea and Mediterranean.
	www.arts.mun.ca /mouseion/1996/bylovka (2679 words)

	Heraclea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		We hear that Heraclea surrendered under compulsion to Hannibal in 212 BC and that in the Social War the public records were destroyed by fire.
		Heraclea Sintica, a town in Thracian Macedonia, to the south of the Strymon, the site of which is marked by the village of Zervokhori, and identified by the discovery of local coins.
		Heraclea, a town on the borders of Caria and Ionia, near the foot of Mount Latmus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heraclea (777 words)

	Read about Heraclea at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Heraclea and learn about Heraclea here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Heraclea Minoa, an ancient town on the south coast of Sicily, at the mouth of the river Halycus, near the modern
		Macedonia, to the south of the Strymon, the site of which is marked by the village of Zervokhori, and identified by the discovery of local coins.
		Heraclea, a town on the borders of Caria and
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Heraclea (696 words)

	Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Heraclea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		=Heraclea Minoa= Heraclea Minoa, an ancient town on the south coast of Sicily, at the mouth of the river Halycus, near the modern Montallegro, some 20 m.
		=Heraclea Sintica= Heraclea Sintica, a town in Thracian Macedonia, to the south of the Strymon, the site of which is marked by the village of Zervokhori, and identified by the discovery of local coins.
		=Heraclea in Ionia= Heraclea, a town on the borders of Caria and Ionia, near the foot of Mount Latmus.
	upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=heraclea (748 words)

	heraclea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As a consequence of its having accepted Roman citizenship, it became a municipium; part of a copy of the Len Iulia Municipalis of 46 B.C. (engraved on the back of two bronze tablets, on the front of which is a Greek inscription of the 3rd century s.c.
		defining the boundaries of lands belonging to various temples), which was found between Heraclea and Metapontum, is of the highest importance for our knowledge of that law.
		HERACLEA, a town on the borders of Cania and lonia, near the foot of Mount Latmus.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /heraclea.html (857 words)

	BITHYNIA - LoveToKnow Article on BITHYNIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The valleys towards the Black Seaabound in fruit trees of all kinds, while the valley of the Sangarius and the plains near Brusa and Isnik (Nicaea) are fertile and well cultivated.
		Both of these were founded after Alexander the Great; but at a much earlier period the Greeks had established on the coast the colonies of Cius (afterwards Prusias, mod.
		Gemlik); Chalcedon, at the entrance of the - Bosporus, nearly opposite Constantinople; and Heraclea Pontica, on the Euxine, about 120 m.
	18.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BI/BITHYNIA.htm (962 words)

	Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity revised electronic edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is more easily taken as a reference to Heraclea Salbake, a few miles from Aphrodisias.
		Theodosius is known to have visited Heraclea Pontica, with the intention of helping and restoring the city: ἰδεῖν καὶ ἐγείραι τῷ χρόνῳ κάμνουσαν (Sozomen, HE, Praef.
		IV.2 The novel issued at Aphrodisias reflects a continuing imperial policy during this period of securing a reliable income for the cities, after the confiscation of their income in the fourth century.
	www.kcl.ac.uk /humanities/cch/eala/final/content/narrative/sec-IV.html (7759 words)

	Monachov and Rogov: Amphoras of Panskoe I 1990
		Heraclea 21 Thasos 3 Khersonesos 11 Sinope 1 Chios 5 Solokha II (Peparethan?) 1 Solokha I 4 Unidentified 1
		It is a rather rare type of a pseudo-Thasian bi-conic container produced, according to the available data, in Heraclea under the magistrates Peisistratos and Themison.
		Their portion of the total volume of container production in Heraclea is not known, however, it is necessary to introduce a correction, [p147] taking into consideration such fractional measures, into the comparative study of the import of various centres.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /amphoras/trans/sym-pans.htm (5438 words)

	Eregli -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		as Heraclea Pontica by a colony of Megarians who soon subjected the native Mariandynians and extended their control over most of the coast.
		The town was founded about 560 BC as Heraclea Pontica by a colony of Megarians who soon subjected the native Mariandynians and extended their control over most of the coast.
		A frontier fortification of the Byzantine Empire, then known as Heraclea Cybistra, the town lay in the way of invading armies and was captured by the Arabs in 806 and again in 832.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9032878?tocId=9032878 (511 words)

	AllRefer.com - Heraclea Pontica (Ancient History, Greece) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Heraclea Pontica (Ancient History, Greece) - Encyclopedia
		Heraclea Pontica[heruklE´u pon´tiku] Pronunciation Key, ancient Greek city, a port on the southern shore of the Black Sea.
		B.C. by colonists from Megara and Boeotia, it rose to a position of great prominence, controlling much of the coast and sending out colonies.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/HeracleaP.html (182 words)

	Heraclides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His father was named Euthyphron, a wealthy man of high status from Heraclea Pontica, who was descended from one of the original founders of this Greek city on the south coast of the Black Sea.
		Stories told of his death are not really believable yet they must at least point to the type of person that Heraclides was.
		It is said that Heraclea Pontica suffered a famine and Heraclides bribed the messengers sent to the
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Heraclides.html (739 words)

	Licinius - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On the death of Galerius, in May 311, he shared the entire empire with Maximinus, the Hellespont and the Thracian Bosporus being the dividing line.
		In March 313 he married Constantia, half-sister of Constantine, at Mediolanurn (Milan), and in the following month inflicted a decisive defeat on Maximinus at Heraclea Pontica, establishing himself master of the East, while his brother-in-law, Constantine, was supreme in the West.
		In 314 his jealousy led him to encourage a treasonable enterprise in favor of Bassianus[?] against Constantine.
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	Heraclea Pontica - Encyclopedia.com
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		Heraclea Pontica, ancient Greek city, a port on the southern shore of the Black Sea.
		BC by colonists from Megara and Boeotia, it rose to a position of great prominence, controlling much of the coast and sending out colonies.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-HeracleaP.html (536 words)

	Fez Travel Turkey and Greece - Bursa Day Trip
		Bursa is the center of the Turkish automobile industry, where FIAT and Renault have located their factories.
		The earliest known site at this location was Cius, which Philip V of Macedonia granted to the Bithynian king Prusias I in 202 BC, for his help against Pergamum and Heraclea Pontica modern Karadeniz Ereg(li).
		The Algerian resistance fighter Emir Abd el-Kader resided here for a while (1852 to 1855), as well as Ayatollah Khomeini in his first year of exile (1963) before leaving for Nejef in Iraq and later for Paris, and Ismail Hakki Bursevi a famous Islamic scholar and Sufi is buried here.
	www.feztravel.com /Bursa_Day_Trip.php (607 words)

	Bithynia
		The most important cities were Nicomedia and Nicaea, which disputed with one another the rank of capital.
		Both of these were founded after Alexander the Great; but at a much earlier period the Greeks had established on the coast the colonies of Cius (afterwards Prusias, modern Gemlik); Chalcedon, at the entrance of the Bosporus, nearly opposite Constantinople; and Heraclea Pontica, on the Euxine, about 120 miles (190 km) east of the Bosporus.
		All these rose to be flourishing places of trade, as did Prusa.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/b/bi/bithynia.html (833 words)

	Heraclea
		Heraclea, ancient Greek city, in Lucania, S Italy, not far from the Gulf of Tarentum (Taranto).
		There Pyrrhus defeated the Romans in 280 B.C. Bronze tablets giving Roman municipal laws were found nearby.
		Heraclea Pontica - Heraclea Pontica, ancient Greek city, a port on the southern shore of the Black Sea.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0823426.html (149 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.11.06
		Kac then comprehensively surveys the evidence for amphora production at Heraclea Pontica and offers a new chronology for the city's amphoras.
		Finally, V. Stolba convincingly argues that amphoras bearing the stamp AMASTRIOS were not made at the city of Amastris but in a workshop at Heraclea Pontica owned by the city's queen Amastris, most probably during her period of sole rule from 305 to 300 BC.
		The Cauldron of Ariantas will serve scholars for years to come as a valuable resource, and for that its editors and authors are to be congratulated.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-11-06.html (1200 words)

	Corning Museum of Glass \| Resource on Glass \| Cameo Glass
		At the far right is the partial figure of a woman making sacrifice at an altar.
		The Morgan cup is believed to have been made during the first half of the 1st century A.D. and is said to have been found at Heraclea Pontica, modern Eregli, on the Black Sea coast of Turkey.
		It was formally in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, New York, and now resides in The Corning Museum of Glass 52.1.93 H 6.2 cm; D (rim) 7.6 cm.).
	www.cmog.org /index.asp?pageId=757 (468 words)

	07/20/98 LATE-BLOOMING SCHOLARS
		For retired diplomat Lloyd Jonnes, this adage rings true: Otium sine litteris mors est, Latin for ''leisure without literature is death.'' In 1975, Jonnes semiretired from a 30-year, globe-trotting career and indulged his fascination with history and ancient languages by loading up on courses at Washington's Catholic University.
		By 1992, he had earned a PhD in ancient Greek and Latin and two years later wrote a book on stone inscriptions from the ancient Turkish city of Heraclea Pontica on the Black Sea.
		Years before, he had helped Turkey set up a giant steel plant near the site and was able to coax plant execs to give him a tour of the area.
	www.businessweek.com /@@4Xjy@WYQ4V*37gUA/1998/29/b3587031.htm (684 words)

	Karadeniz Eregli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is located on the shore of the Black Sea.
		It was started by the ancient Greeks and was called Heraclea Pontica, after the mythical figure Hercules (Herakles).
		In Ereğli is located the cave, guarded by the three-headed dog Kerberos (Cerberus), which was the gateway to hell.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/K/Karadeniz-Eregli.htm (253 words)

	BITHYNIA (BtOvpta) - Encyclopedia Britannica - BITHYNIA (BtOvpta) - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		of Heraclea, having a course of more than loo m.
		Gemlik); Chalcedon, at the entrance of the'Bosporus, nearly opposite Constantinople; and Heraclea Pontica, on the Euxine, about 120 M. east of the Bosporus.
		All these rose to be flourishing places of trade, as also Prusa at the foot of M. Olympus
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/BER_BLA/BITHYNIA_BtOvpta_.html (1086 words)

	Ordu / Rize
		It lies at the mouth of the Melet River on the eastern slopes of Boztepe (1,800 feet [550 m]), which protects it against storms from the northwest.
		Ordu was the site of ancient Cotyora, founded by Greek colonists from Sinope (modern Sinop) in the 5th century BC, and is the place from which the survivors of Xenophon's Ten Thousand (Greeks who went to Asia to seek their fortunes) embarked for Sinope and Heraclea Pontica (modern Eregli).
		Ordu is now a centre for hazelnut processing and exporting, fishing, and timber exporting.
	www.mondial-tour.com /ordu.htm (828 words)

	TATÝL DÜNYASI :: Ordu :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It lies at the mouth of the Melet River on the eastern slopes of Boztepe (1,800 feet [550 m]), which protects it against storms from the northwest.
		Ordu was the site of ancient Cotyora, founded by Greek colonists from Sinope (modern Sinop) in the 5th century BC, and is the place from which the survivors of Xenophon's Ten Thousand (Greeks who went to Asia to seek their fortunes) embarked for Sinope and Heraclea Pontica (modern Eregli).
		Ordu is now a centre for hazelnut processing and exporting, fishing, and timber exporting.
	www.tatildunyasi.com /a.page/en/c.611.html (304 words)

	Ancient Coins - Roman Emperor Licinius I
		On the death of Galerius, May AD 311, he shared the entire empire with Maximinus, the Hellespont and the Thracian Bosporus being the dividing line.
		In April AD 313 he inflicted a decisive defeat on Maximinus at Heraclea Pontica, and established himself master of the east while his brother-in-law, Constantine, was supreme in the west.
		In AD 314 his jealousy led him to encourage a treasonable enterprise against Constantine.
	www.jakesmp.com /CD_Ancients/Ancient_Coins_020_C.html (452 words)

	Journey's Gift - Part 3
		Other than Astacus and Heraclea Pontica there would be few places to find additional supplies.
		Astacus was twenty leagues from Cius and Heraclea Pontica was thirty leagues beyond Astacus.
		The Amazons insisted on escorting their queen and her consort to their eastern border which was almost to the city of Heraclea Pontica.
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	The Dynamics of Trade in Transport Amphorae from Sinope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the most used means for dating archaeological complexes in the Hellenistic period is provided by the amphorae and the amphora stamps coming from important Greek production centers such as Thasos, Rhodes, Cnidus in the Aegean, Heraclea Pontica, Sinope or Chersonesus in the Black Sea.
		In the last decades, the chronologies of the amphora stamps from these centers have much gained in precision, due to the increased number of closed complexes published and to the efforts of some specialists such as V. Grace[1], Y.
		Century BC, when the other major exporters (Thasos, Sinope, Pontic Heraclea) were absents or had no stamped amphorae any more.
	www.pontos.dk /Kronologiseminar/Papers/CONdynamics_of_trade.htm (5246 words)

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