Helenopolis
settlement
ancient city of Bithynia in modern-day Turkey
Location: 40.7200, 29.5000 · Pleiades 511240
Who is recorded here
- Saint Helena birth · AD 250
About the place
Helenopolis or Drepana (Δρέπανα) or Drepanon (Δρέπανον) was an ancient Thracian and later Greco-Roman and Byzantine town in Bithynia, Asia Minor, on the southern side of the Gulf of Astacus. Helenopolis has been identified with the modern village of Hersek, in the district of Altınova, Yalova Province.
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