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Perinthus (Marmara Ereğlisi)

Perinthus (Greek Πέρινθος): Greek, later Roman, town on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Marmara, modern Marmara Ereğlisi.

c.599 BCE: Founded as a Greek colony on the Propontis; two natural harbors (the western one is now dry)
Defeated by the Paeones.^note[Herodotus, Histories 5.1.]
Member of the Delian League until 411
377 member of the Second Delian League
357 Alliance with Byzantium, briefly independent
341/340 BCE Conflict between Philip of Macedonia and Achaemenid Persia is the immediate cause of war
338 Macedonian
Shifting alliances, a/o with Byzantium against the Seleucids
188 BCE Pergamene Empire
133/129 BCE Roman (Via Egnatia)
46 CE Added to Thrace; capital of this province
Roman theater (with view over the sea), walls, hippodrome
193 CE Septimius Severus used Perinthus as base for an attack on Byzantium
275 CE Death of Aurelian^note[Zosimus, New History 1.62.]
c.300 CE Renamed Heraclea
359 Earthquake
514 Ecclestiastical Synod

Perinthus, Relief of Micallus

Perinthus, Portrait of a man

Perinthus, Portrait of Commodus

Perinthus, Tombstone of Paulus of III Italica