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Philippopolis and they
Then they probably headed south to besiege Philippopolis ( now Plovdiv in Bulgaria ).
In 1362 they captured Philippopolis ( Plovdiv ), and in 1382 they took Sofia.
In Philippopolis ( Bulgaria ), they excommunicate Pope Julius, and as a result, the Arian controversy is perpetuated.
It is said that the family name was derived from the city of Komne, near Philippopolis in Thrace, where they were landowners, and that they were of Armenian ancestry from Paphlagonia, which is possibly supported by the use of the name Manuel instead of Emmanouel.
Striking along the Danube, they overran the military centers of Ratiaria and successfully besieged Naissus ( modern Niš ) with battering rams and rolling towers ( military sophistication that was new to the Hun repertory ), then, pushing along the Nisava, they took Serdica ( Sofia ), Philippopolis ( Plovdiv ) and Arcadiopolis ( Luleburgaz ).
It is said that the family name was derived from the city of Komne, near Philippopolis in Thrace, where they were landowners, and that they were of Armenian ancestry, which is possibly supported by the use of the name Manuel instead of Emmanouel.
At the same time, they also captured the Bulgarian cities of Philippopolis and Boruj ( Stara Zagora ).

Philippopolis and term
The term Philippopolis (), which translates as " Philip's Town ," may refer to the following cities:

Philippopolis and Pope
Refusing to acquiesce in the sentence passed upon him, he withdrew with the other bishops excomunicated to Philippopolis, where he in turn helped to secure a sentence of excommunication and deposition against his judges, including Pope Julius and Hosius of Cordoba.

Philippopolis and Julius
Decius was forced to withdraw his army to the north at Oescus, leaving Cniva ample time to ravage Moesia and finally capture Philippopolis in the summer of 251, in part with the help of its commander, a certain Titus Julius Priscus who had proclaimed himself Emperor.
It was through the influence of Julius that, at a later date, the council of Sardica in Illyria was held, which was attended only by seventy-six Eastern bishops, who speedily withdrew to Philippopolis and deposed Julius at the council of Philippopolis, along with Athanasius and others.

Philippopolis and I
In 970 the emperor John I Tzimiskes transplanted no less than 200, 000 Armenian Paulicians to Europe and settled them in the neighbourhood of Philippopolis ( today's Plovdiv in Thrace ).
Kaloyan pursued his predecessors ' aggressive policy against the Byzantine Empire to the point of making an alliance with Ivanko, the murderer of Ivan Asen I, who had entered Byzantine service in 1196 and had become governor of Philippopolis ( Plovdiv ).
The Roman emperor Theodosius I built a small rectilinear fortress on the road at a junction with a route leading north across the Rhodope Mountains toward Philippopolis.

Philippopolis and well
It seems that he was at first treated well as a valuable hostage, but was sacrificed by the Bulgarian monarch in a sudden outburst of rage, perhaps in consequence of the revolt of Philippopolis, which passed into the hands of the Franks.
No less than fourteen villages near Nicopolis, in Moesia, embraced Catholicism, as well as the villages around Philippopolis.

Philippopolis and their
Probably in the vicinity of Philippopolis ( modern Plovdiv, Bulgaria ), the Bastarnae broke out of their marching columns and pillaged the land far and wide.
Suleyman Paşa, the son of the Ottoman sultan, led their forces in Europe and was able to take Adrianople and Philippopolis and exact tribute from the Emperor.
The Goths then moved to attack Philippopolis ( modern Plovdiv ), which fell into their hands.
Efforts were again put forth for their conversion ; and for the converts the new city of Alexiopolis was built, opposite Philippopolis.
Under Turkish rule, the Armenian Paulicians lived in relative safety in their ancient stronghold near Philippopolis, and further northward.
The Council of Philippopolis in 343, 344, or 347 was a result of Arian bishops from the Eastern Roman Empire leaving the Council of Sardica to form their own counter council.
In 970, the Paulicians of Syria were transferred by the emperor John Tzimisces to Philippopolis in Thrace, and, as a reward for their promise to keep back " the Scythians " ( in fact Bulgarians ), the emperor granted them religious freedom.

Philippopolis and at
The son of a soldier, he spent his early life as an obscure soldier, member of a military unit located at Philippopolis.
Diocletian, the eastern Augustus, in order to keep the balance of power in the imperium elevated Galerius as his Caesar, possibly on May 21, 293 at Philippopolis.
He initially took up politics as a career, and held important appointments under the Angelus emperors ( amongst them that of Grand Logothete or Chancellor ) and was governor of the theme of Philippopolis at a critical period.
) During the course of 1205, Kaloyan defeated the Latins at Serres and captured Philippopolis ( Plovdiv ), overrunning much of the territory of the Latin Empire in Thrace and Macedonia.
Eastern Rumelia, which had its own large Turkish and Greek minorities, became an autonomous province under a Christian ruler, with its capital at Philippopolis.
He successfully conquered the city of Philippopolis, present-day Bulgarian city Plovdiv, and killed the emperor Decius and his son Herennius Etruscus at the Battle of Abrittus as he was attempting to leave the Roman Empire.
Plevna was isolated, and after its fall in December Gourko led his troops amidst snow and ice over the Balkans to the fertile valley beyond, decisively defeated Suleiman Pasha at the Battle of Philippopolis and occupied Sofia, Philippopolis ( Plovdiv ) and Adrianople.
Russian forces under Gourko were able to crush Suleiman's army at the Battle of Philippopolis several days later and threaten Constantinople.
* Cyriacus ( at the Council of Philippopolis, 344 )
During a stay at Philippopolis, Alexius argued with the sect bringing most if not all, back to the Church ( so his daughter: " Alexias ", XV, 9 ).

Philippopolis and Council
* The Council of Philippopolis is held as the result of Eastern bishops leaving the Council of Sardica.

Philippopolis and Sardica
In the following campaign, Hun armies came alarmingly close to Constantinople, sacking Sardica, Arcadiopolis and Philippopolis along the way.
In 343 or 347 the rival councils of Sardica and Philippopolis were held.
In the following campaign, Hun armies came alarmingly close to Constantinople, sacking Sardica, Arcadiopolis and Philippopolis along the way.

Philippopolis and was
This led to a further revolt near Philippopolis, and the commander of the field army in the west, Gregory Pakourianos, was defeated and killed in the ensuing battle.
The Hungarians attacked Belgrade, Nish and Sofia ; John, who was near Philippopolis in Thrace, counterattacked, supported by a naval flotilla operating on the Danube.
The Byzantine forces, led by the emperor and the caesar Bardas, were successful in the conflict and reconquered a number of cities, Philippopolis, Develtus, Anchialus and Mesembria being among them, and the region of Zagora was recovered.
Its capital was Plovdiv ( Ottoman: Filibe, Greek: Philippopolis ).
Philoxenus was banished to Philippopolis in Thrace, and afterwards to Gangra in Paphlagonia, where he was murdered in 523.
While Cniva was laying siege to the city of Nicopolis, Decius arrived, and the Goths left and headed towards Philippopolis.

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