Marmara Ereğlisi
| Marmara Ereğlisi | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Tekirdağ | |||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 58 ' N , 27 ° 57' E | |||
| Residents : | 11,803 (2008) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 282 | |||
| Postal code : | 59 xxx | |||
| License plate : | 59 | |||
| Structure and administration (status: 2009) | ||||
| Mayor : | İbrahim Uyan ( CHP ) | |||
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| Marmara Ereğlisi County | ||||
| Residents : | 25,601 (2008) | |||
| Surface: | 197 km² | |||
| Population density : | 130 inhabitants per km² | |||
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Marmara Ereğlisi ( Greek Πέρινθος Perinthos , later Ἡράκλεια Herakleia ) is a Turkish port city in Eastern Thrace and a small fishing port on the Marmara Sea . The city belongs to the province of Tekirdağ .
Perinthos , probably a Thracian settlement, was founded in 654 BC. BC or 599 BC Colonized from Samos and later renamed Herakleia ( Diodorus 16.76). In ancient times and in the early Middle Ages, an important road led from Herakleia, via Tzurulos ( Çorlu ), Arkadiupolis ( Lüleburgaz ), today's Kırklareli and Malko Tarnowo to Sosopolis and Deultum on the Gulf of Burgas on the Black Sea coast .
Small parts of the ancient city can still be visited today. There is an open-air museum with finds on the market square in the lower town. There are excavations with mosaics in the city. On the hill of the former acropolis there are not yet excavated ancient buildings and columns. Other finds can be seen in the Tekirdağ Museum .
literature
- Mustafa Hamdi Sayar: Perinthos-Herakleia (Marmara Ereğlisi) and surroundings. History, testimony, Greek and Latin inscriptions . Vienna 1998. ISBN 3-7001-2766-9
Web links
- Story of the Perinthians told by Herodotus
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed November 28, 2009
- ↑ Peter Soustal: Thrace (Thrace, Rhodope and Haimimontos) ( Tabula Imperii Byzantini . Volume 6). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7001-1898-8 , p. 145
