Heraclea (Eleia)
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.688, 21.573
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient town of Elis, western Greece
History
Heraclea, Heracleia, or Herakleia was a town of Pisatis in ancient Elis, distant 40 or 50 stadia from Olympia. It was but a village in the time of Pausanias. It contained medicinal waters issuing from a fountain sacred to the Ionic nymphs, and flowing into the neighbouring stream called Cytherus or Cytherius, which is the brook near the modern village of Irakleia.