Herakleia Sintike

Herakleia Sintike (lat. Heraclea Sintica ) was an ancient city ​​in Thracian Eastern Macedonia , south of the Strymon . Herakleia has so far only been roughly localized on the basis of coin finds and written sources. The city was near the present-day town of Zervokhori , perhaps also near Neo Petritsi . It was probably made by the Macedonian king Philip II in the 4th century BC. Founded. After the Roman conquest, the city belonged to the Roman province of Macedonia . The city is mentioned by Caesar , Titus Livius , Diodorus and most recently in Synékdemos , a list of the provinces and cities of the Roman Empire, which was briefly renewed under Justinian I , which shows that the city was still inhabited in the 6th century.

literature

• Claude Lepelley: Une inscription ďHeraclea Sintica (Macédoine) récemment découverte, révélant un rescrit de ľempereur Galère restituant ses droits à la cite . In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 146 (2004), pp. 221–231.
• Ernst Meyer : Herakleia 3rd In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 1034 f.
• Georgi Mitrev: Civitas Heracleotarum. Heracleia Sintica or the Ancient City at the Village of Rupite (Bulgaria) . In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 145 (2003), 263–272.