Nicopolis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.M. Murray
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors:
DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Catherine Bouras, R. Talbert
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 21, 2025 05:41 PM
—
History
An ancient city of Epirus founded by Octavian ca. 31 B.C. to commemorate his victory over Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium.
Show place in Google Earth.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/531013
39.0157, 20.7360035
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARMC location 34834 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
-
- Actanicopoli (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Nicopolis (30 BC - AD 640)
- Nicopolis capital of Epirus Vetus (unspecified date range)
- Actium Victory Monument located at Nicopolis (unspecified date range)
- Bouleuterion located at Nicopolis (unspecified date range)
- City wall, Nicopolis located at Nicopolis (unspecified date range)
- Roman theater at Nicopolis located at Nicopolis (unspecified date range)
- Villa of Manius Antoninus located at Nicopolis (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
-
- BAtlas 54 C3 Nicopolis
- EDH G000179: Nicopolis – Mostafa Kamel
- Grigoropoulos 2021
- ItAnt (Cuntz) 325,2 Actia Nicopoli
- ItMiller 571, 563
- Lauffer 1989 469-71
- New Pauly Nicopolis [3]
- PECS (Perseus) NIKOPOLIS (Palioprevesa) Epeiros, Greece
- TIB Nikopolis 213-14
- ToposText Nicopolis (Preveza)
- Wikipedia (English) Nicopolis
- Zachos 2003
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 54 C3 Nicopolis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Palaio-Preveza
W.M. Murray, DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Catherine Bouras, and R. Talbert, 'Nicopolis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/531013> [accessed: 10 March 2025]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/531013 |title=Places: 531013 (Nicopolis) |author=Murray, W. |accessdate=March 10, 2025 6:05 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}