It is called Marmara Ereğlisi (or Marmara Ereğli in colloquial usage) to distinguish it from the two other large towns in Turkey with the name Ereğli (deriving from the Greek name Heraclea), one in Konya Province (Konya Ereğlisi), the other on the Black Sea coast (Karadeniz Ereğli).
Marmara Ereğlisi, ancient Perinthos, later called Heracleia, Samian colony in the European coast of Propontis (today's Tekirdağ Province in the Marmara region of Turkey)
Meanwhile the two hundred bishops who had assembled on 1 July at Heraclea separated without accomplishing anything.
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