Ancient Nicopolis ( Νικόπολις, " Victory City ") was built nearby by Augustus to commemorate his victory, and today it is believed that at its peak it had a total population of 150, 000.

In 1059, it was named Nicopolis, Greek for " City of Victory ".

* Nicopolis (" Victory city "), Emmaus in Israel

In 1393 the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Shishman had lost Nicopolis — his temporary capital — to the Ottomans, while his brother, Ivan Stratsimir, still held Vidin but had been reduced to an Ottoman vassal.

* 1396 — Battle of Nicopolis — the Christian coalition is defeated ; fall of Vidin

An ancient Roman festival, Actia, was named after Actium, in Nicopolis, the new city ( today Preveza, Greece ).

* Nikos Karabelas, writer and president of the foundation " Actia Nicopolis " in Preveza.

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.

He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia ( present day Pamukkale, Turkey ), and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece for the rest of his life.

" Many eminent figures sought conversations with him, and the Emperor Hadrian was friendly with him and may have listened to him speak at his school in Nicopolis.

His mission succeeded, and Emmaus was henceforward known as Nicopolis.

He was born in Nicopolis in Epirus.

Meanwhile Hormisdas reported to Avitus of Vienne that an additional number of Balkan bishops had entered into relations with Rome, and Bishop John of Nicopolis, who was also the archbishop of Epirus, had broken communion with Constantinople and resumed it with Rome.

Using the works of Jerome and Eusebius of Caesarea, who describe Aijalon as being two Roman miles from Nicopolis, while also drawing upon descriptions of Aijalon in the Old Testament and noting the philological similarities between the present-day Arabic name and its Hebrew root, Robinson concluded Yalo was indeed Aijalon.

By now Dyrrhachium was lost and Peter had not only defeated the strategos of Hellas, but most of the theme of Nicopolis had risen up against Michael, disgusted with the greed of John the Eunuch.

The chief towns of Upper Moesia in the Principate were: Singidunum ( Belgrade ), Viminacium ( sometimes called municipium Aelium ; modern Kostolac ), Remesiana ( Bela Palanka ), Bononia ( Vidin ), Ratiaria ( Archar ) and Skupi ( modern Skopje ); of Lower Moesia: Oescus ( colonia Ulpia, Gigen ), Novae ( near Svishtov, the chief seat of Theodoric the Great ), Nicopolis ad Istrum ( Nikup ; really near the river Yantra ), Marcianopolis ( Devnya ), Odessus ( Varna ) and Tomi ( Constanţa ; to which the poet Ovid was banished ).

The Hungarian advance was rapid, Ottoman fortresses were bypassed, while local Bulgarians from Vidin, Oryahovo, and Nicopolis joined the army ( Fruzhin, son of Ivan Shishman, also participated in the campaign with his own guard ).

In the 18th century, the Paulician people from around Nicopolis were persecuted by the Turks, presumably on religious grounds, and a good part of them fled across the Danube and settled in the Banat region that was part of the Austrian Empire at the time, and became known as Banat Bulgarians.

He was restored to the throne and participated in the disastrous crusade of Nicopolis organized by Sigismund I.

The city was liberated ( as Greeks saw it ) after the Battle of Nicopolis, by the Greek Army forces under Colonel Papagiotis Speliades.

The legion was in its base in Nicopolis when a revolt against roman rule started in south Egypt.

One of the earliest spiced biscuits was gingerbread, in French pain d ' épices, meaning " spice bread ", brought to Europe in 992 by the Armenian monk Grégoire de Nicopolis.

Sigismund was nominally in charge ; however, in the 1396 Battle of Nicopolis the French leader, John of Nevers, commanded the French half of the forces and ignored Sigismund's entreaties by charging the Turks.

Around this time the so-called western gate was constructed, several hundred meters north of the south gate, becoming the main gate of Nicopolis.

He was born in Nicopolis, according to the Liber Pontificalis, and served as a deacon in Rome.

The capital was Nicopolis.

Based on the record of Julian's close ties with certain leading men from Epirus involved in the Empire-wide cultural circuit led by Libanios and Themistios, it appears that Christianity was not widespread in Epirus in the mid-4th century, but after his death it spread far and wide in the region, judging from legislation issued by Valentinian in 371 and 372, trying to offset some of the negative effects its rapid spread, and the fact that there is no written record of the bishops of the cities of Epiros until the 5th century, except for the Bishop of Nicopolis in 343.

Basilica B was the largest of the Nicopolis basilicas and probably served as the metropolitan bishop ’ s main church.

The ruins of the ancient city of Nicopolis lie 7 km north of the city.

In 1798 French Revolutionary troops, stationed in Preveza by Napoleon, dug into the graves and ruins of ancient Nicopolis and looted various treasures.

The remains of numerous ancient cities lie on its shores: Actium at the entrance, where the famous Battle of Actium was fought in 31 BC ; Nicopolis, Argos Ippatum, Limnaea, and Olpae.

The Byzantine emperor Leo III after his victory over Arab besiegers in 740 renamed the city Nicopolis ( Greek for " city of victory ").

About 93 AD Emperor Domitian banished all philosophers from the city, and Epictetus travelled to Nicopolis in Epirus, Greece, where he founded a philosophical school.

After his decisive victory at Actium he builds Nicopolis, the city is populated by Greeks from settlements further inland.

* Augustus founds the city of Nicopolis in Egypt to commemorate his final victory over Mark Antony.

Since Dolopes had vanished, he gave their position to the city of Nicopolis.

In the aftermath of the battle of Actium in the Ambracian Gulf in 31 BC, Octavian himself founded Nicopolis, the city of victory, in 28 BC, symbolically representing his successful unification of the Roman Empire under one administration and, geographically, a major transportation and communications point linking the eastern and western halves of the Mediterranean.

At that time, as a city in a senatorial province, Nicopolis began minting its own copper coins ( until 268 ).

Until the time of Constantine, it is supposed that the bishopric of Nicopolis came under the jurisdiction of the metropolitan of Corinth, but with the administrative reforms under Emperor Diocletain and Constantine ( 306-337 ), Nicopolis itself became the metropolitan city of Epirus Vetus.

In 31 BC, the Roman Emperor Octavian removed the population of the city to the new colony of Nicopolis, founded to commemorate his victory at the Battle of Actium earlier that year.

While Cniva was laying siege to the city of Nicopolis, Decius arrived, and the Goths left and headed towards Philippopolis.

French and Hungarian crusaders met at the city before engaging in the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396.

The town was renamed Nicopolis in 221 AD by Emperor Elagabalus, who conferred the title of “ city ” following the request of a delegation from Emmaus.

As the Russian army crossed the Danube River, they approached the fortified city of Nikopol ( Nicopolis ).

Between 146 BC and 395, it was incorporated into the Roman province of Macedonia. The capital of Epirus vetus was Nicopolis, a city founded by Octavian in memory of his victory over Antony and Cleopatra at Actium.