Site of Heraclea Lyncestes.
4th c BCE-6th c CE Macedonian Hellenistic/ Roman Provincial Environment

GREEK HELLENISTIC Anonymous (323 BCE - 30 BCE)
GREEK HELLENISTIC Anonymous (323 BCE - 30 BCE) Primary
c. 350 BCE-c. 625 CE
4th c BCE-6th c CE
Stone
Constructed
Hellenistic/ Roman Provincial
Site
Heraclea Lyncestes .Republic of Macedonia.
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Heraclea was founded by Phillip of Macedon who named it after the mythic Greek heo. It was conquored by the Romans in the 2nd century, and became an important episcopal center from the 4th to the 6th cetury. However, the city was gradually abandoned after a stong earthquake devastated it in the early 6th c.