The Sintians, Meadi and other people sided with Perseus and fought the Romans with zeal. However, in the Battle of Pydna (168 BC) the Romans won and conquered the kingdom of Macedon. After that the kingdom was divided into four client states and Sintice was included in the first with Amphipolis as capital. Subsequently, after the Battle of Philipi in 42 BC the ancient capital of Sintice, Heraclea, was made a "free town" as Titus Livy mentions. It was still in existence in the 10th century AD when it was mentioned for the last time by Hierocles and Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos.