Heraclea Lyncestis

Founded by Philip II of Macedon, the ancient city of Heraclea Lyncestis is located just south of modern Bitola. With its location along the Via Egnatia, the Roman highway which once ran from the Adriatic Sea to Istanbul, the city was an important and prosperous center of commerce until a devastating earthquake in the sixth century AD.

Lyncestis had been an administrative region within the Kingdom of Macedonia, and the name Heraclea comes, as might be supposed, from the mythological Heracles. A...