The objective of founding the town was to take control of the neighbouring gold mines and to establish a garrison at a strategic passage: the site controlled the route between Amphipolis and Neapolis, part of the great royal route which crosses Macedonia from the east to the west and which was reconstructed later by the Roman Empire as the Via Egnatia.

Eventually, this gifted student became dissatisfied with the level of philosophical instruction available in Alexandria, and went to Athens, the preeminent philosophical center of the day, in 431 to study at the Neoplatonic successor of the famous Academy founded 800 years ( in 387 BC ) before by Plato ; there he was taught by Plutarch of Athens ( not to be confused with Plutarch of Chaeronea ), Syrianus, and Asclepigenia ; he succeeded Syrianus as head of the Academy, and would in turn be succeeded on his death by Marinus of Neapolis.

The major remaining independent Greek settlement was Neapolis, and when the town was eventually captured by the Samnites, the Neapolitans were in need of help.

The Roman consul Quintus Publilius Filo recaptured Neapolis by 326 BC and allowed it to remain a Greek city with some autonomy as a civitas foederata while strongly aligned with Rome.

According to the Council of Chalcedon which took place in 451, the local bishop as well as the bishops of Amathus and Arsinoe were involved in the foundation of the city, which would be known by the names of Theodosiana and Neapolis.

The Neapolis consisted of a walled precinct with an irregular ground plan of 200 by 130 m. The walls were built, and repeatedly modified in the period from the 5th till the 2nd century BC.

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 ").

Samaritans reacted by entering the cathedral of Neapolis, killing the Christians inside and severing the fingers of the bishop Terebinthus.

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 city was founded by settlers from Thassos about at the end of the 7th century BC, who called it Neapolis ( Νεάπολις ; " new city " in Greek ).

In 411 BC, during the Peloponnesian War, Neapolis was sieged by the allied armies of the Spartans and the Thassians, but remained faithful to Athens.

* Verres is a major character in the novel Spartacus: Swords and Ashes by Jonathan Clements, which is set on the eve of his governorship of Sicily and concerns an undocumented dispute with a young Cicero in Neapolis.

During the First Jewish – Roman War, Shechem was destroyed and a Neapolis or " new city " was built nearby by Vespasian in 72.

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

A biography was written by his contemporary Leontios of Neapolis.

Neapolis was destroyed halfway through the 3rd century AD by the Goths.

In a description of a painting in Neapolis, the Greek rhetorician Philostratus the Elder describes them as sisters and wives of the male centaurs who live on Mount Pelion with their children.

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.

Dense populations of sovereign Samnites remained in the mountains north of Capua, which is just north of the Greek city of Neapolis.

Modern Syracuse, Naples, Marseille and Istanbul had their beginnings as the Greek colonies Syracusae ( Συρακούσαι ), Neapolis ( Νεάπολις ), Massalia ( Μασσαλία ) and Byzantion ( Βυζάντιον ).

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

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

* Neapolis ( Thracian Chersonese ), Greek colony in modern Turkey.

By this time Rome was familiar with coinage, as it had been introduced to Italy in the Greek colonies of Metapontum, Croton, and Sybaris before 500 BC and Neapolis ca 450 BC.

The Naples National Archaeological Museum ( Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli ) is a museum in Naples, southern Italy, at the northwest corner of the original Greek wall of the city of Neapolis.

He subsequently visited Neapolis, where he taught Greek to Virgil, according to Macrobius.

Torre Neapolis 1944, an Italian football club based in Torre del Greco

* Serie D's Neapolis, located in Naples, was born as a relocation of Sangiuseppese, a club hailing from the neighbouring city of San Giuseppe Vesuviano.

* Neapolis Municipal Gymnasium for Ionikos FC

Florida Auto Exchange Stadium is situated next to the Dunedin Public Library a few blocks south of downtown on Douglas Avenue, and is just two blocks east of Edgewater Drive.

According to the Public Stadium Authority's website, the events center contributes more than half a billion dollars to the region's economy.

The developer must replace the 500 lost parking spots and turn over parking revenue to the Public Stadium Authority per an agreement with King County.

* Washington State Public Stadium Authority

* Public artwork at the 161st Street-Yankee Stadium, commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit

The Blues even lured Dick Frahm away from the Gunners and even took over the lease of Public Schools Stadium.

The Theatre is situated at Yuen Long Tai Yuk Road in the vicinity of Yuen Long Park, Yuen Long Stadium and the Public Swimming Pool.

Robertson Stadium, then known as Houston Public School Stadium, was erected from March 1941 to September 1942.

The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association ( MPSSAA ) holds the four state football championships for Maryland's public high schools at M & T Bank Stadium.

The conduct of Campus and Stadium Ireland Development limited is currently under investigation by the Public Accounts Committee ( PAC ) when it emerged that they had ignored both the advice of the Attorney General and the Comptroller and Auditor General, who both advised against taking the VAT case.

The Washington State Public Stadium Authority is the public authority that oversees CenturyLink Field in Seattle, Washington.

On June 6, the planned West Side Stadium was defeated by the Public Authorities Control Board when Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno refused to vote for it.

Named the " Public School Stadium ", it was completed in 1942, and had a seating capacity of 20, 500.

It also has a Dublin Public Library, a Dublin City Council recycling depot and a substantial leisure area, Ringsend Park, which contains a renovated stadium, formerly " Ringsend Stadium ", now " Irishtown Stadium " in honour of the neighbouring area of Irishtown.

Public Venues: Olive K. Folger Hall ( food court, Crimson Events Center ), Hadley Union Building ( HUB ), John S. Fisher Auditorium, David J. Waller Hall, George P. Miller Stadium, Memorial Field House, Foster Hall ( dining ), Daugherty Field, Oak Grove, Breezedale Alumni Center

About an hour before the first pitch, a fire had started in Public School 3, an abandoned elementary school a few blocks west of Yankee Stadium.

Prospect, and # 43-Jersey City ), another Public Service trolley conduit, has been rehabilitated and opened for service in 2006 as another portion of the subway, to serve as a connection between Newark's two train stations and provide access to the Performing Arts Center, Newark Bears Stadium, Washington Park and the Newark Public Library.

Bob Sheppard-Yankee Stadium Public Address Announcer " The Voice of the Yankees " from 1951-2009 was born and raised in Richmond Hill.

Finally, on June 6, 2005, the Public Authorities Control Board rejected New York State's $ 300 million contribution for the project, eliminating the possibility that an Olympic Stadium on that site would be fully approved before the IOC's vote.

During its first years at its original campus, BJC football was played at " Public School Field ," located three blocks north-northeast of today's Bronco Stadium.

* Peoria Public Schools Stadium, Peoria, Illinois — a football stadium on U. S. Route 150