Heraclea (Perinthus) - ܗܪܩܠܝܐ
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“Metropolis of the Late Roman province Europa in Thrace, its significance dwindled in Late Antiquity because of the rise of Constantinople which was located only 90km to the east. Joh. Eph., EH 1.9, mentions it as a place of exile for miaphysites.” 1
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- Lat. 40.971013° Long. 27.952973°3
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“Metropolis of the Late Roman province Europa in Thrace, its significance dwindled in Late Antiquity because of the rise of Constantinople which was located only 90km to the east. Joh. Eph., EH 1.9, mentions it as a place of exile for miaphysites.” 1
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- 1 Alexander P. Kazhdan (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)., p: 915.
- 2 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 8, chapter: 3.1.9.
- 3 https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/511357
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