He was born at Flavia Neapolis ( today Nablus ) in Palestine into a pagan family, and defined himself as a Gentile.

Justin wrote that nearly all the Samaritans in his time were adherents of a certain Simon of Gitta, a village not far from Flavia Neapolis.

* Foundation of Flavia Neapolis ( Nablus ).

Founded by the Roman Emperor Vespasian in 72 CE as Flavia Neapolis, Nablus has been ruled by many empires over the course of its almost 2, 000-year-long history.

Flavia Neapolis (" new city of the emperor Flavius ") was founded in 72 CE by the Roman emperor Vespasian over an older Samaritan village, Mabartha (" the passage ").

The site of Shechem in patristic sources is almost invariably identified with or located close to the town of Nablus / Flavia Neapolis.

In A. D. 72, a new city, Flavia Neapolis, was built by Vespasian a 2 kilometers to the west of the old one.

Marinus ( Greek: Μαρίνος ὁ Νεαπολίτης ) was a Neoplatonist philosopher born in Flavia Neapolis ( modern Nablus ), Palestine in around 450 AD.

The Roman colonies and chief towns were Virunum ( near Maria Saal to the north of Klagenfurt ), Teurnia ( near Spittal an der Drau ), Flavia Solva ( near Leibnitz ), Celeia ( Celje ) in today's Slovenia, Juvavum ( Salzburg ), Ovilava ( Wels ), Lauriacum ( Lorch at the mouth of the Enns, the ancient Anisus ).

This story features Flavia Herosilla, a well educated woman living in ancient Rome at its height.

The name " Amphitheatrum Flavium " derives from both Vespasian's and Titus's family name ( Flavius, from the gens Flavia ).

Suetonius says that after the death of Vespasian's wife Flavia Domitilla, Caenis was his wife in all but name until her death in AD 74.

The legion was disbanded in 70, but reconstituted shortly afterwards under the name of Legio IIII Flavia Felix.

XVI Gallica was reconstituted with the name of Legio XVI Flavia Firma.

The given name still exists in romance languages, such as the Romanian Flavius or Flaviu, feminine Flavia, and Portuguese Flávio, feminine Flávia.

Hispellum received the name of Flavia Constans by a rescript of the emperor Constantine, a copy of which on a marble tablet is still preserved at the Communal Palace of Spello.

In 2011, Fiat announced that the Chrysler 200 convertible would be sold in Europe by Lancia under the Flavia name that began in Q1 2012.

Limassol was built between two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, so during Byzantine rule it was known as Neapolis ( new town ).

The ancient necropolis remained in use with inhumations and cremations, possibly Greek and indigenous from the Neapolis.

As yet, there is no evidence attesting to a Jewish presence in ancient Neapolis.

* Neapoli, Kavala, a subdivision and an ancient name of Kavala ( the Neapolis of Acts 16: 11 in the Bible )

* Neapolis, Chalcidice, an ancient city on the Pallene isthmus, Chalcidice

* Neapolis, Sardinia, an ancient city the ruins of which are found in the comune of Guspini, Province of Medio Campidano, Sardinia, Italy

* Neapolis, Apulia, an ancient city in Apulia, Italy

The tunnel was built during the reign of Augustus connecting Neapolis ( ancient Naples ) to Pozzuoli and Baiae.

His grandfather, Bacchius, had a Greek name, while his father, Priscus bore a Latin name, which has led to speculations that his ancestors may have settled in Neapolis soon after its establishment or that they may have descended from a Roman ' diplomatic ' community that had been sent there.

In 636, Neapolis, along with most of Palestine, came under the rule of the Islamic Arab Caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab ; its name Arabicized to Nablus.

" Terebinth ", for example, describes Shechem as " near Neapolis ", modern Nablus, and " Tophet " is located " in the suburbs of Jerusalem ".

* Neapolis ( present day Nablus ) is founded in Iudaea Province.

* Neapolis (" New city "), several including the modern cities of Nablus and Naples (), and the adjective Neapolitan

Elsewhere he refers to it as Neapolis / Nablus.

* Neapolis ( Nablus )

Jerome mentioned Thebez being 13 Roman miles east of Neapolis ( Nablus ).

Neapolis, along with most of Palestine, was conquered by the Muslims under Khaled ibn al-Walid — a general of the Rashidun army of Umar ibn al-Khattab — in 636 after the Battle of Yarmouk.

The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city's new and modern harbor.

In ancient times, there were various explanations for the name Aegean.

Ahenobarbus was the name of a plebeian family of the Domitia gens in the late Republic and early Principate of ancient Rome.

He assumed the title of Alfonso XII, for although no King of united Spain had borne the name " Alfonso XI ", the Spanish monarchy was regarded as continuous with the more ancient monarchy represented by the 11 kings of Asturias, León and Castile also named Alfonso.

Actium ( Greek: Ἄκτιον ) was the ancient name of a promontory of western Greece in northwestern Acarnania, at the mouth of the Sinus Ambracius ( Gulf of Arta ) opposite Nicopolis, built by Augustus on the north side of the strait.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

Aegospotami ( Αἰγὸς Ποταμοί ) or Aegospotamos ( i. e. Goat Streams ) is the ancient Greek name for a small river issuing into the Hellespont ( Modern Turkish Çanakkale Boğazı ), northeast of Sestos.

The ancient Greek township of that name, whose existence is attested by coins of the 5th and 4th centuries, and the river itself were located in ancient Thrace in the Chersonese.

The Seljuq Turks then arrived in 1071 and changed its name to Kara Hissar (" black castle ") after the ancient fortress situated upon a volcanic rock 201 meters above the town.

* Anemoi, for the ancient origin of the name of this technology

Anubis ( or ; ) is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.

This name was applied by the Arabs to the asterism of α, β, and γ Aquilae and probably goes back to the ancient Babylonians and Sumerians, who called α Aquilae the eagle star.

The name is also given to certain legendary races described by ancient naturalists and

The name comes from Greek Bosporos ( Βόσπορος ), which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous ' ox ' + poros ' means of passing a river, ford, ferry ', thus meaning ' ox-ford ', which is a reference to Io ( mythology ) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus.

The name Barcelona comes from the ancient Iberian Phoenician Barkeno, attested in an ancient coin inscription in Iberian script as Barkeno in Levantine Iberian script, in Ancient Greek sources as, Barkinṓn ; and in Latin as Barcino, Barcilonum and Barceno.

" W. Sibley Towner suggests that Haggai's name might come " from his single-minded effort to bring about the reconstruction of that destination of ancient Judean pilgrims, the Temple in Jerusalem.

Although he must have been familiar with the ancient name, Balcia, meaning a supposed island in the Baltic Sea, and although he may have been aware of the Baltic words containing the stem balt -, " white ", as " swamp ", he reports that he followed the local use of balticus from baelt (" belt ") because the sea stretches to the east " in modum baltei " (" in the manner of a belt ").

After Björkö came to be identified with ancient Birka, it has been assumed that the original name of Birka was simply Bierkø ( sometimes spelt Bjärkö ), an earlier form of Björkö.

Many believe that al-kīmīā is derived from χημία, which is in turn derived from the word Chemi or Kimi, which is the ancient name of Egypt in Egyptian.

This measure apparently had no great success, since French voyager Pierre Gilles writes in the middle of 16th century that the Greek population of Constantinople was unable to mention any name of the ancient Byzantine churches transformed in mosques or abandoned.

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

The island is first referred to as Kaptara in texts from the Syrian city of Mari dating from the 18th century BC, repeated later in Neo-Assyrian records and the Bible ( Caphtor ) It was also known in ancient Egyptian as Keftiu, strongly suggesting some form similar to both was the Minoan name for the island.

The Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo recalled that the ancient name of this site had been Krisa.