Then the invaders headed south to plunder Nicopolis ad Istrum where Decius defeated them but not decisively.

In 348, to escape religious persecution by a Gothic chief, probably Athanaric he obtained permission from Constantius II to migrate with his flock of converts to Moesia and settle near Nicopolis ad Istrum in modern northern Bulgaria.

Later in the 4th century, a group of Goths arrived in northern Bulgaria and settled in and around Nicopolis ad Istrum.

* Wulfila escapes religious persecution by the Gothic chieftain Athanaric and obtains permission from Constantius II to migrate with his flock of converts to Moesia and settled near Nicopolis ad Istrum ( Bulgaria ).

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 Roman Catholic Diocese of Nicopoli, which covers the entirety of Northern Bulgaria, was historically based not in this Nikopol, but in Nicopolis ad Istrum near Veliko Ternovo ; although the present episcopal see is in Ruse.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Nicopolis (, " City of Victory ") — or Actia Nicopolis — was an ancient city of Epirus, founded 31 BC by Octavian in memory of his victory over Antony and Cleopatra at Actium the previous year.

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.

On October 10 near Nicopolis, some 7, 000 Wallachian cavalrymen under Mircea II, one of Vlad Dracul's sons, also joined.

According to one theory, modern Preveza grew around a military outpost built in the 9th century by the Bulgarians, following their conquest 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.

In 343, in the Acts of the Council of Serdica, we have for the first time mention of a bishop of Nicopolis, one Isidoros.

Various battles fought in this area, the latest one in 1912 when it was captured by the Greek Army during the First Balkan War, were named " Battle of Nicopolis " rather than " Battle of Preveza ".

In 1399, he founded the Emprise de l ' Escu vert à la Dame Blanche, a chivalric order inspired by the ideal of courtly love: " one might have supposed him cured of all chivalrous delusions after the catastrophe of Nicopolis ", remarked Huizinga.

The Battle of Nikopol, or Nicopolis, was one of the early battles of the Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ).

As a prominent Crusader, he was one of the French contingent sent to take part in the Battle of Nicopolis.

He studied philosophy in Nicopolis in Epirus, under the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, and wrote two books about the philosopher's teachings.

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

Afterwards, the towns and settlements of Acarnania fell under the rule of Nicopolis.

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.

New pagan cities were founded in Judea at Eleutheropolis ( Bayt Jibrin ), Diopolis ( Lydd ), and Nicopolis ( Emmaus ).

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.

He was born in Nicopolis ( Today: Koyulhisar, Turkey ) and after the death of his parents in 471 founded a monastery.

When Octavian founded the town of Nicopolis, in memory of his victory over Antony and Cleopatra in the battle of Actium, he drove Aetolians to populate it but the parts of them moved to Amfissa.

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.