Ionia Herakleia
Herakleias predecessor settlement Latmos developed around 1000 v. Chr. through of landtaking Greek refugee Karer in the inhospitable, but safe rock landscape of the Latmosgebirges. The originally karische city, turned out in 6. Century just like the cities Ioniens under lydische and later Persian rule. 499-494 v. Chr. Latmos participated just like the remaining Karien in the ionischen rebellion against Persia. After 494 Latmos received an attachment. It became member of the attisch delischen sea-federation with the minimum contribution of 1 talent/year, which reflected its economic power.
Latmos turned out again under Persian rule and became part by a native dynasty (house of the Hekatomniden, their most well-known representative: Maussollos) governed Satrapie Karien. Maussollos operated between 377 and 351 v. Chr. a substantial Hellenisierungspolitik in Karien.
After 300 v. Chr. the brightistic reestablishment Herakleia replaced the old (removed 10 foot minutes) Latmos and became capital parts of Kariens of the comprehensive realm „of the duo December diadochus “ Pleistarch. Only after the end of the Pleistarch the city created as Pleistarchäa accepted the name Herakleia. The name change, which condemned „the founder “Pleistarch to forgetting (it becomes), might not have to be attributed last to the fact that the old Latmos was completely destroyed by it and its inhabitants against its will was resettled. Herakleia owes a very expensive fastened (however only of seam animals and pedestrians accessible) road system, which opened both the territory of the city and secured the binding to the regional traffic routes to the Pleistarch, and which very solid attachments.
Rome gave Herakleia, that caution for the sake of and intelligent-proves before the defeat of the Seleukiden Antiochos III. against Rome the side had changed, in early 2. Century v. Chr. the liberty. It began „the golden “century of the city. 133 v. Chr. became Herakleia and Karien part of the Roman province Asia. The Herakleia peripheral lain did not win however the favour of imperial or senatorischer „sponsors “. Only a Roman miniature hot spring changed the old brightistic townscape. Still in 6. Century was the remote Herakleia the second largest city of the province Karien, their mountain regions z. B. at the Latmos of the Christianisierung had offered long resistance. In 7. Century was settled the Latmosgebirge by monks from the Sinai and to the Athos a comparable „holy mountain “.
End 14. Century eliminate the Osmanen the regional competitive Turkish Dynasten in the southwest of small Asia. At the latest to this time the Latmossee was completely from the sea separated and extracted Herakleia of economic development the basis.
Also:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/artifact?name=Herakleia%20under%20Latmus&object=Site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%C5%9Fparmak_Mountains
http://www.bafalake.com/eng/alternatives.htm
