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Encyclopedia Britannica



PHILIPPI (Turk. Filibejik)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 390 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PHILIPPI (Turk. Filibejik) , a city of ancient Macedonia, on a steep hill near the river Gangites (mod. Angista), overlooking an extensive plain and at no
great
  distance from the
coast
  of the
Aegean
 , on the
highway
  between Neapolis (Kavalla) and Thessalonica. Originally called Crenides (Fountains), it took its later name from Philip II. of Macedon, who made himself master of the neighbouring gold mines of the Hill of Dionysus, and fortified the city as one of his frontier-towns. In 42 B.C., after the victory gained over the senatorial party by Octavius and Antony, it became a Roman colony, Colonia Julia Philippensis, which was probably increased after the battle of Actium (Col Aug. Julia Phil.). The inhabitants received the Jus Italicum, and
Philippi
  was one of the specially designated " first cities " (Acts xvi. 12; see Marquardt, Rom. Staatsverwaltung, i. 187). The city was twice visited by St Paul, whose Epistle to the Philippians was addressed to his converts here. The site, now uninhabited, is marked by ruinsthe substructions of an
amphitheatre
 , parts of a
great
  templewhich have furnished interesting
inscriptions
 . A little to the
east
  is the huge stone
monument
  of C. Vibius, known to the Turks as Dikelitashlar and to the Greeks as the Manger of
Bucephalus
 .
See Heuzey and Daumet, Mission arch. en Macedoine, Paris (1865), and other authorities in bibliography of MACEDONIA; Corp..rnscr. Lat. iii. 1. (J. D. B.)


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