Nicopolis (disambiguation)

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

Nicopolis or Nikopolis (Greek (Νικόπολις), "City of Victory") may also refer to the following places and jurisdictions:

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

in Africa

  • Nicopolis (Alexandria), a Roman garrison suburb of the metropolis Alexandria, in Egypt

See also

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