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Herculaneum, ancient city of 4,000–5,000 inhabitants in Campania, Italy. It lay 5 miles 8 km southeast of Naples, at the western base of Mount Vesuvius, and was destroyed—together with Pompeii, Torre Annunziata, and Stabiae—by the Vesuvius eruption of ad 79.