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Heraclea
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Heraclea (hĕrəklē`ə), ancient Greek city, in Lucania, S Italy, not far from the Gulf of Tarentum (Taranto). There Pyrrhus defeated the Romans in 280 B.C. Bronze tablets giving Roman municipal laws were found nearby.
Heraclea
any of several ancient Greek colonies. The most famous is the S Italian site where Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated the Romans (280 bc)


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After the coming into service of the dreadnoughts The Empress Maria (June 1915) and The Empress Catherine the Great (October 1915), and the formation of three tactical ("mobile," as the contemporary documents said) task forces, which took turns sailing to combat designation area, the fleet actions directed at disrupting the enemy lines of communication off the Heracleia coast turned into a blockade, the highest form of warfare on lines of communication.
 
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