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He was born at Flavia Neapolis ( today Nablus ) in Palestine into a pagan family, and defined himself as a Gentile.
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.
Leptis Magna () also known as Lectis Magna ( or Lepcis Magna as it is sometimes spelled ), also called Lpqy, Neapolis, Lebida or Lebda to modern-day residents of Libya, was a prominent city of the Roman Empire.
Limassol was built between two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, so during Byzantine rule it was known as Neapolis ( new town ).
Bishop Leontios of Neapolis was an important church writer in the 7th century.
Other roads ran to Puteoli and Cumae ( the so-called Via Campana ) and to Neapolis, and as we have seen the Via Appia passed through Capua, which was thus the most important road centre of Campania.
Prior to that appointment, Foley was President Emeritus of Pontifical Council for Social Communications and Titular Archbishop of Neapolis in Proconsulari.
Under Roman rule " quiet Cumae " slumbered until the disasters of the Gothic Wars, when it was repeatedly attacked, as the only fortified city in Campania aside from Neapolis: Belisarius took it in 536, Totila held it, and when Narses gained possession of Cumae, he found he had won the whole treasury of the Goths.
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 ").
Neapolis was entirely pagan at this time.
By this time, Neapolis was within the Palaestina Prima province under the rule of the Byzantine Empire.
Neapolis ' bishop Ammonas was murdered and the city's priests were hacked into pieces and then burned together with the relics of saints.
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.
Neapolis was a member of the Athenian League, as a pillar found in Athens mentions a contribution of Neapolis to the alliance.
Prior to his appointment, Euphemius was a presbyter of Constantinople, administrator of a hospital for the poor at Neapolis, unsuspected of any Eutychian leanings, and is described as learned and very virtuous.

Neapolis and town
To the west the wall separated the Neapolis from the Iberian town of Indika.
The site of Shechem in patristic sources is almost invariably identified with or located close to the town of Nablus / Flavia Neapolis.
* Scythian Neapolis, Scythian town in modern Ukraine.

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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.
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.
The Neapolitans appealed to Rome, which sent an army and expelled the Samnites from Neapolis.
The Romans, who are meanwhile moving south while the Samnites are occupied with Tarentum, take the opportunity to recover Neapolis and, after a long siege, evict the Samnite garrison from the city and make it an ally of Rome.
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.
The ancient necropolis remained in use with inhumations and cremations, possibly Greek and indigenous from the Neapolis.
Due to the city's strategic geographic position and the abundance of water from nearby springs, Neapolis prospered, accumulating extensive territory, including the former Judean toparchy of Acraba.
At the end of the 6th century BC Neapolis claimed its independence from Thassos and cut its own silver coins with the head of Gorgo ( γοργὀνειο ) at the one side as a symbol.
The other Pisidian cities Neapolis, Tyriacum, Laodiceia Katakekaumene and Philomelium founded on the slopes, benefited from this fertility.
* 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.
Scythian Neapolis () was a settlement that existed from the end of the 3rd century BC until the second half of the 3rd century AD.
Returned from Hades, Derkyllis comes with their companions and Keryllos Astraios for " grave of the Siren ", which, according to Rohde at the Neapolis tomb located the siren Parthenope is understood.

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Dense populations of sovereign Samnites remained in the mountains north of Capua, which is just north of the Greek city of Neapolis.
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.
* 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.
* Neapolis, Sardinia, an ancient city the ruins of which are found in the comune of Guspini, Province of Medio Campidano, Sardinia, Italy
Min was especially a god of the desert routes on the east of Egypt, and the trading tribes are likely to have gathered to his festivals for business and pleasure at Coptos ( which was really near Neapolis, Qina ) even more than at Akhmim.

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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.
Lazio – together with the present region of Campania immediately to the southeast of Lazio and the seat of Neapolis – became Region I.
# A passage in Statius describing the repairs of the Via Domitiana, a branch road of the Via Appia, leading to Neapolis.
Gelo himself became the despot of the city, and moved many inhabitants of Gela, Kamarina and Megera to Syracuse, building the new quarters of Tyche and Neapolis outside the walls.
* Neapolis ( present day Nablus ) is founded in Iudaea Province.
He also performed in Napoli on 15 July, at Neapolis Festival.
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.
A tortuous coastal road wound between Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber and Neapolis.
The Samnites, now a major power after defeating the Greeks of Tarentum, occupied Neapolis to try to ensure its loyalty.
Their capital city, Scythian Neapolis, stood on the outskirts of modern Simferopol.

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