Nicopolis (disambiguation)

Nicopolis was an ancient city and archbishopric in Epirus, now in continental Greece.

Nicopolis or Nikopolis (Greek: "city of victory") may also refer to:

In Europe

• Nicopolis (theme), a Byzantine theme (military province) encompassing western Greece
• Nicopolis ad Istrum, a city in Moesia, also known as Nicopolis ad Iaternum, now Stari-Nicup in northern Bulgaria
• Nicopolis ad Nestum, city in Thrace, ruins at modern Garmen in southern Bulgaria
• Nikopol, Bulgaria

In Africa

• Nicopolis, a city on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, about five miles east of Alexandria

In Asia

Anatolia (Turkey)

• Nicopolis (Armenia), an ancient Roman colony, now Koyulhisar in Turkey
• Nicopolis (Bithynia), an ancient town of Bithynia in northwestern Anatolia
• Nicopolis (Cilicia), an ancient town of Cilicia in southeastern Anatolia
• Nicopolis, a city in Asia Minor, now Afyonkarahisar
• Nikopolis, the old name for Şebinkarahisar

Holy Land

• Emmaus Nicopolis, a Roman name for the city of Emmaus as refounded in 221 AD (in present-day Israel), Arabic ‘Amwās

See also

• Battle of Nicopolis
• Nikopoli, Thessaloniki
• Nikopol (disambiguation)
• Nikopsis

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This page was last edited on 12 June 2023, at 02:22