High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Heraclea in Trachis, also called Heraclea Trachinia, was a colony founded by the Lacedaemonians in the sixth year of the Peloponnesian War in 426 B.C. It was located four miles west of Thermopylae, and about 2 miles south of the Malian Gulf. The object of this colony was to assist the Trachinians, , in their struggle against the Oetaeans. Thucydides also tells us that the Spartans thought the town would "lie conveniently for the purposes of the war with Athens." From Heraclea the Spartans could ready a fleet to annoy Euboea, and the town would be "a useful station on the road to Thrace." Accordingly the Spartans sent Leon, Alcidas, and Damagon to found the town, and invited any other Dorians that wished to come and settle. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной...