Nicopolis (Greek: Νικόπολις, lit. 'city of victory'; Armenian: Նիկոպոլիս) was a Roman colony in Lesser Armenia founded by Pompey in 63 BC after conquering...
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Nicopolis (Greek: Νικόπολις, translit. Nikópolis, lit. "City of Victory") or Actia Nicopolis was the capital city of the Roman province of Epirus Vetus...
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Nicopolis was an ancient city and archbishopric in Epirus, now in continental Greece. Nicopolis or Nikopolis (Greek: "city of victory") may also refer...
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Emmaus (redirect from Emmaus Nicopolis)
later called Emmaus Nicopolis.[citation needed] Many sites have been suggested for the biblical Emmaus, among them Emmaus Nicopolis (c. 160 stadia from...
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of Armenia Prima (I) listed in the Annuario Pontificio as titular sees: Berissa Colonia in Armenia (Köylühisar) (Armenian Catholic Church) Nicopolis in...
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John the Silent (category Armenian bishops)
Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches. John was born in 454 AD in Nicopolis, Armenia (modern-day Koyulhisar, Turkey). He came from a family of mainly generals...
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The 499 Nicopolis earthquake took place in September 499. It affected the cities of Nicopolis, Neocaesarea (modern Niksar), Arsamosata, and Abarne. Northern...
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Satala Aphrodite (category CS1 Armenian-language sources (hy))
over-life-sized head of a bronze Hellenistic statue discovered in Satala (classical Armenia Minor, present-day Sadak, Gümüşhane Province, Turkey). Probably created...
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List of wars involving the Ottoman Empire (category CS1 Armenian-language sources (hy))
of Bulgaria: Nicopolis Battles of France: Nicopolis (1396) Battles of Knights of Rhodes: Nicopolis (1396) Battles of Bosnia: Nicopolis (1396) Battles...
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this, retired to the vicinity of Nicopolis in Armenia Parva. Calvinus brought his army to within seven miles of Nicopolis and, avoiding an ambush set by...
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Koyulhisar (redirect from Colonia in Armenia of the Armenians)
ancient city of Nicopolis in Armenia (v.; Νικόπολις in ancient Greek) stood at this place and rose to Metropolis of Roman Lesser Armenia. Historically,...
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"Nicopolis ad Iaterum (Titular See)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved October 4, 2017 "Titular Episcopal See of Nicopolis in Armenia"...
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Artavasdes II, but the Armenian king hesitated. Now the triumvir marched into Roman western Armenia. He summoned Artavasdes II to Nicopolis, allegedly to prepare...
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Ashtat Yeztayar (category 7th century in Armenia)
showing them Theodosius. He then seized several Armenian cities such as Citharizum, Satala, Nicopolis and Apastiay. After that, Ashtat Yeztayar disappears...
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the city of Nicopolis. Mithridates fled to Colchis, and later to his son Machares in the Crimea in 65 BC. Pompey now headed east into Armenia, where Tigranes...
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Mithridatic War. After a heavy defeat against king Pharnaces II of Pontus near Nicopolis, the surviving soldiers of Deiotarus’s army formed a single legion, which...
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Erzurum (redirect from Theodosiopolis in Armenia)
Erzurum (Armenian: Կարին, romanized: Karin; Kurdish: Erzirom) is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It is the largest city and capital of Erzurum Province...
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Ani (redirect from Ani (Armenia))
border with Armenia. Between 961 and 1045, it was the capital of the Bagratid Armenian kingdom that covered much of present-day Armenia and eastern Turkey...
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given Lesser Armenia (Nicopolis and Satala) and Sohaemus of Emesa received Armenia Sophene. In the spring of 58, Corbulo entered Greater Armenia from Cappadocia...
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(Nicomedia, Turkey) Archdiocese of Nicopolis ad Nestum (Nicopolis ad Nestum, Bulgaria) Archdiocese of Nicopolis in Epiro (Nicopolis, Greece) Archdiocese of Nicopsis...
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499 Nicopolis earthquake takes place in the borders between the regions of Mesopotamia, Pontus, and Roman Armenia. It affects the cities of Nicopolis, Neocaesarea...
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Satala (redirect from Satala in Armenia)
which remains a Latin Catholic titular see. Later it was connected with Nicopolis by two highways. Satala is now Sadak, a village of 348 inhabitants (2022)...
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his forces. He advanced towards Pharnaces, who had seized Nicopolis, a city in Lesser Armenia. Pharnaces sent envoys to negotiate an armistice. Domitius...
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part of Armenia Minor, or perhaps more correctly in Pontus, on the road from Caesarea to Satala, and on the road from Arabissus to Nicopolis. Historically...
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Roman forces sought battle with Pharnaces II. They met at the Battle of Nicopolis in eastern Anatolia, where Pharnaces II defeated the Roman army and overran...
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Januarius and Pelagia (redirect from Januarius of Nicopolis)
beheaded or racked and torn with iron claws and pieces of earthware at Nicopolis in Armenia during the reign of the Roman emperor Licinius. Their feast day observed...
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Johann Schiltberger (category Christians of the Battle of Nicopolis)
against the Ottoman Empire on the Hungarian frontier. At the Battle of Nicopolis on 28 September 1396, he was wounded and taken prisoner; when Schiltberger...
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brought to Europe in 992 by the Armenian monk Grégoire de Nicopolis. He left Nicopolis Pompeii, of Lesser Armenia to live in Bondaroy, France, near...
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Europe in 992 AD by the Armenian monk Gregory of Nicopolis (also called Gregory Makar and Grégoire de Nicopolis). He left Nicopolis (in modern-day western...
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esteem Paul held for Titus. Paul summoned Titus from Crete to join him at Nicopolis in Epirus. Later, Titus traveled to Dalmatia. The New Testament does not...
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