Heraclea of Macedonia | The Ancient City of Heracles Built by Philip of Macedon

In the present Republic of Macedonia, right next to the city Bitola is the ancient site Heraclea. Known as Heraclea Lyncestis, this city was built by the father of Alexander the Great, Philip of Macedon in honor of Heracles, the legendary ancestor of the Macedonian royal family, a divine hero from the times that we don't know very much about.
Lyncestida was a region in Macedonia, it is believed that Alexander's grandmother was from Stibera, another ancient city in the region. Heraclea and Bitola are in base of the mountain Baba - which means "a grandmother" in macedonian language. The old name of Bitola was Monastir, with meaning "a temple", because of the temple of Heracles in the city Heraclea. The city of Hercules or Heracles amazes with its architecture, the ancient theatre, rare mosaics and its important cultural heritage not only of Macedonia and the region, but of Europe and the whole world.
There is a theory that the name Minas Tirit in the famous book "Lord of the Rings" was inspired from the Manastirot - Monastir, Heraclea in Macedonia.
In the centuries after the glorious Macedonian empire of Philip and Alexander, Heraclea Lynkestida stayed an important city, it was a well known station not only on the ancient macedonian highway which later was reconstructed to Via Egnatia, but also in the middle ages. This site is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Macedonia.
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[@rossfun9840]

First of all Heraclea is an ancient greek city in Pelagonia ,todays NORTH Macedonia and not Macedonia which is actually in Greece , second its medieval greek name is MONASTIRI that means monastery and not temple , enough of this falsificated "history"

[@veljkopetkovic5393]

aha funny thing is that i live 3 km from that place and u say that we have nothing to do with ancient macedonians? hahah so retarded.
its funny that macedonians alway ben there and yet its we that are bulgarians or serbs or whatever u wanna call us but we were there way much earlier then them. and bro times changes shit changes we dont care what kind of macedonians u call us. the thing is that we are macedonians always ben and macedonia was never greek never will and youre history is made up by germans and frenchmen. the only way in to the balkans to them was past u and u got a false history

[@user-RedPirateTerrorist]

Relax ,it is a fact that Macedonians are not Greeks

[@bambi275]

Macedonians don’t speak Greek 🙏

[@vasilmirmidonski2740]

The turkish name for Bitola is Monastiri yes. But Heraclea was and will be Macedonian forever 🇲🇰 never Greek!!! Macedonian before Christ and Macedonian after Christ