Heracleium
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.246, 37.026
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Pontus in modern-day Turkey
History
Heracleium or Herakleion, also known as Lamyron (Λαμυρών), was a port town of ancient Pontus, on the Black Sea, between Amisus and Polemonium. It was situated on a promontory of the same name called Herakleios akra by Strabo, and Herakleous Akron by Ptolemy).