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Perinthus
40.9709° N, 27.9545° E
About
Perinthus or Perinthos (Ancient Greek: ἡ Πέρινθος) was a great and flourishing town of ancient Thrace, situated on the Propontis. According to John Tzetzes, it bore at an early period the name of Mygdonia (Μυγδονία). It lay 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of Selymbria and 90 kilometres (56 mi) west of Byzantium, on a small peninsula of the bay which bears its name, and was built like an amphitheatre, on the declivity of a hill. Its site is near modern Marmara Ereğlisi, in Turkey.
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Alternative proposed foundation
c. 1000 BCE
Founding (Samian colony)
c. 599 BCE
Imperial honours under Septimius Severus
193–211 AD
Renamed Heraclea
after 4th century AD
Basilica construction
5th century AD
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