Historical place profile
Heraclea ad Latmum/Pleistarcheia
A town of Caria located 25 km east of Miletos on the Ionian coast, Heraclea was located on the lower slopes of Mt. Latmos. Once a part of the Delian League, the city fell to Mausolos in the fourth century B.C. and his philhellene policy accounts for its change of name.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:599640
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:599640
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.501842, 27.525011
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A town of Caria located 25 km east of Miletos on the Ionian coast, Heraclea was located on the lower slopes of Mt. Latmos. Once a part of the Delian League, the city fell to Mausolos in the fourth century B.C. and his philhellene policy accounts for its change of name.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 61 F2 Heraclea ad Latmum/Pleistarcheia
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Research path
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