Heraeum (Thrace)

Heraeum or Heraion ({{langx|grc|Ἥραιον}}), also known as Heraion Teichos (Ἡραῖον τεῖχος) was a Greek{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|page= 918}} city in ancient Thrace, located on the Propontis, a little to the east of Bisanthe.{{Cite Herodotus|4.90}}{{Cite Stephanus|s.v. Ἡραῖον}} The city was a Samian colony[https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/eta/489 Suda, § eta.489][https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1389.tlg001.perseus-grc1:h.heraion_teichos Harpokration, Lexicon of the Ten Orators, h15] and founded around 600 BC. In some of the Itineraries, the place is called Hiereum or Ereon.

Herodotus, Demosthenes, Harpokration, Stephanus of Byzantium and Suda mention the city.

In 352 BCE Phillip II besieged the city. Athens decided to send a fleet of forty triremes and to levy sixty talents in order to help the city, but the fleet never set sail. Only later a much smaller fleet of ten ships and money of five talents were sent.[https://books.google.com/books?id=AUwVUgPyzgsC Demosthenes and His Time: A Study in Defeat, p.124]

Its site is near Aytepe, in Turkey.{{Cite Barrington|52}}{{Cite DARE|31391}}