Nicopolis (disambiguation)
Nicopolis was an Ancient city and archbishopric in Epirus, now in continental Greece, and remains a Latin Catholic Metropolitan titular see.
Nicopolis or Nikopolis (Greek (Νικόπολις), "City of Victory") may also refer to the following places and jurisdictions :
also 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 and a Latin Catholic titular bishopric
- Nicopolis ad Nestum, city and archbishopric of Thrace, ruins at modern Garmen in southern Bulgaria, and a Latin Catholic non-Metropolitan titular archbishopric
- Nikopol, Bulgaria or Nicopolis
in Asia
- Anatolia (Turkey)
- Nicopolis in (Lesser) Armenia = Nicopolis in Cappadocia = Nicopolis in Ponto = Nicopolis ad Lyco, a Roman colony, city and bishopric in Cappadocia in the valley of the Lycus, now P(y)urkh in northeastern Turkey and a Latin Catholic titular bishopric
- Nicopolis, a city in Asia Minor, now Afyonkarahisar
- Holy Land
- (Emmaus) Nicopolis (in Palaestina), a Roman name for the city of Emmaus as refounded in 221 AD (in present-day Israel), Arabic ‘Amwās
in Africa
- Nicopolis (Alexandria), a Roman garrison suburb of the metropolis Alexandria, in Egypt
See also
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