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NICOPOLIS, or ACTIA NICOPOLIS

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 665 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICOPOLIS, or ACTIA NICOPOLIS , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Epirus, founded 31 B.C. by Octavian (See also:Augustus) in memory of his victory over Antony and See also:Cleopatra at See also:Actium. The See also:colony, composed of settlers from a See also:great many of the towns of the neighbouring countries (See also:Ambracia, Anactoriuna, See also:Calydon, See also:Argos Amphilochicum, Leucas, &c.), proved highly successful, and the city was considered the See also:capital of See also:southern Epirus and See also:Acarnania, and obtained the right of sending five representatives to the Amphictyonic See also:council. On the spot where Octavian's own See also:tent had been pitched he erected a See also:sanctuary to See also:Neptune adorned with the beaks of the captured galleys; and in further celebration of his victory he instituted the so-called Actian See also:games in See also:honour of See also:Apollo Actius. The city was restored by the See also:emperor See also:Julian, and again after the See also:Gothic invasion by Justinian; but in the course of the See also:middle ages it was supplanted by the See also:town of Prevesa. The ruins of Nicopolis, now known as Palaeoprevesa (Old Prevesa), See also:lie about 3 M. See also:north of that city, on a small See also:bay of the Gulf of See also:Arta (Sinus Ambracius) at the narrowest See also:part of the See also:isthmus of the See also:peninsula which separates the gulf from the Ionian See also:Sea. Besides the See also:acropolis, the most conspicuous See also:objects are two theatres (the larger with twenty-seven rows of seats) and an See also:aqueduct which brought See also:water to the town from a distance of 27 M. Nicopolis was also the name of (I) a city in See also:Cappadocia in the valley of the Lycus, founded by See also:Pompey on the spot where he defeated See also:Mithradates; (2) a city in See also:Egypt, founded by Octavian 24 B.C. to commemorate his final victory over Antony; and (3) a city in See also:Thrace (Nikup) at the junction of the latrus with the See also:Danube, founded by See also:Trajan in memory of his victory over the Dacians.

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