Heraclea
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Heraclea , ancient Greek city, in Lucania, S Italy, not far from the Gulf of Tarentum (Taranto). There Pyrrhus defeated the Romans in 280 BC Bronze tablets giving Roman municipal laws were found nearby.
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