Ancient Philippi
Pictures of Ancient Ruins of Philippi, Greece
The Palace of Philip II & Alexander the Great in Region Macedonia(Ancient Macedonia)Greece
The Palace of Philip II & Alexander the Great in Region Macedonia(Ancient Macedonia)/Greece
Φίλιπποι, Philippi, Филиппы, Macedonia, Hellas, UNESCO
Philippi (Greek: Φίλιπποι, Philippoi) was a major city northwest of the nearby island, Thasos. Its original name was Crenides (Greek: Κρηνῖδες, Krenides Fountains) after its establishment by Thasian colonists in 360/359 BC. The city was renamed by Philip II of Macedon in 356 BC and abandoned in the 14th century after the Ottoman conquest. The present municipality, Filippoi, is located near the ruins of the ancient city and is part of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace in Kavala, Greece. It was classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016 Thasian colonists established a settlement at Krenides (meaning springs) in Thrace in 360/359 BC near the head of the Aegean Sea at the foot of Mt. Orbelos, now called Mt. Lekani, about 13 km (8.1 mi) north-west of Kavalla, on the northern border of the marsh that, in antiquity, covered the entire plain separating it from the Pangaion hills to the south.In 356 BC King Philip II of Macedon conquered the city and renamed it to Philippi.
The Macedonian conquerors of the town aimed 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 runs east-west across Macedonia and which the Roman Republic reconstructed in the 2nd century BC as part of the Via Egnatia. Philip II endowed the city with important fortifications, which partially blocked the passage between the swamp and Mt. Orbelos, and sent colonists to occupy it. Philip also had the marsh partially drained, as the writer Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BC) attests. Philippi preserved its autonomy within the kingdom of Macedon and had its own political institutions (the Assembly of the demos). The discovery of new gold mines near the city, at Asyla, contributed to the wealth of the kingdom and Philip established a mint there. The city became fully integrated into the kingdom during the reign (221 to 179 BC) of Philip V of Macedon. The city contained 2,000 people. When the Romans destroyed the Antigonid dynasty of Macedon in the Third Macedonian War (168 BC), they divided the kingdom into four separate states (merides). Amphipolis (rather than Philippi) became the capital of the eastern Macedonian state. Almost nothing is known about the city in this period, but archeological remains include walls, the Greek theatre, the foundations of a house under the Roman forum and a little temple dedicated to a hero cult. This monument covers the tomb of a certain Exekestos, is possibly situated on the agora and is dedicated to the κτίστης (ktistēs), the foundation hero of the city.
The New Testament records a visit to the city by the apostle Paul during his second missionary journey (likely in AD 49 or 50)(Acts 16:9-10). On the basis of the Acts of the Apostles and the letter to the Philippians, early Christians concluded that Paul had founded their community. Accompanied by Silas, by Timothy and possibly by Luke (the author of the Acts of the Apostles), Paul is believed to have preached for the first time on European soil in Philippi.AcThis Basilica of Paul, identified by a mosaic As in other cities, In 473 Ostrogothic troops. There was a small amount of activity there in the 7th century, but the city was now hardly more than a village.
The Byzantine Empire possibly maintained a garrison there, but in 838 the Bulgarians under kavhan Isbul took the city and celebrated their victory with a monumental inscription on the stylobate in Basilica B, now partially in ruins. The site of Philippi was so strategically sound that the Byzantines attempted to recapture it around 850. Several seals of civil servants and other Byzantine officials, dated to the first half of the 9th century, prove the presence of Byzantine armies in the city. Around 969, Emperor Nicephorus II Phocas rebuilt the fortifications on the acropolis and in part of the city. These gradually helped to weaken Bulgar power and to strengthen the Byzantine presence in the area. In 1077 Bishop Basil Kartzimopoulos rebuilt part of the defenses inside the city. The city began to prosper once more, as witnessed by the Arab geographer Al Idrisi, who mentions it as a centre of business and wine production around 1150.After a brief occupation by the Franks after the Fourth Crusade and the capture of Constantinople in 1204, the city was captured by the Serbs. Still, it remained a notable fortification on the route of the ancient Via Egnatia; in 1354, the pretender to the Byzantine throne, Matthew Cantacuzenus, was captured there by the Serbs.
The city was abandoned at an unknown date. When the French traveller Pierre Belon visited the area in the 1540s there remained nothing but ruins, used by the Turks as a quarry. The name of the city survived - at first in a Turkish village on the nearby plain, Philibedjik (Filibecik, Little Filibe in Turkish), which has since disappeared, and then in a Greek village in the mountains.
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Ancient Macedonia, Greece (Museums, Temples, Tombs)
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Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki / Macedonia(Greece)
Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki / Macedonia(Greece)
The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki is a museum in Thessaloniki, Greece. It holds and interprets artifacts from the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods, mostly from the city of Thessaloniki but also from the region of Macedonia in general.
Ancient Macedonia Greek Roman Coins Guide and How-To by Numismatic Expert Dealer for Sale eBay
that accompanies this video. Macedonia was an area and also an ancient Greek kingdom from which Alexander the great heralded from. This video explores many different coin types from the first Macedonian king and mentions the last Macedonian king by the name of Perseus. It goes on to describe the types of coins Macedonia had minted during the tiemes of the ancient Romans. Coins of Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius, Titus Domitian and even Marcus Aurelius are shown. There are many rare coins from Greek cities such as Olynthos, Amphipolis, Akanthos, Philippi, Amphaxitis, Roman Republic Coin mentioning Macedonina Victory, Uranopolis, Thessalonica, Tragilos and Eion. This collection has been together by ancient coin expert, enthusiast author and dealer of numismatic coins, Ilya Zlobin.
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The amphipolis Tomb, in the north Greek region of Macedonia
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Theater von Philippi
. Philippi war die erste Stadt in Griechenland, in welcher der Apostel Paulus um das Jahr 50 n. Chr. das Evangelium verkündete. Hier gründete er auch die erste christliche Gemeinde auf europäischem Boden. Nach der Eroberung des Byzantinischen Reiches wurde die Stadt von den Türken zerstört.
HD capture of the ancient city of Philippoi, Kavala,Greece.
The ancient city of Philipoi by above the mountain
Macedonia - Biblical land
Only the Sun is older than Macedonia!
Long live Macedonia!
The land of God
The land of Kings
The land of Alexander Macedonian!
Ancient Gymnasium of Amphipolis
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THE TRUE MACEDONIA (Η ΑΛΗΘΙΝΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ) -ENGLISH VERSION -11-24-2011.avi
A country without Pella, Vergina, Aiani, Philippi, Dion, Amphipolis, Thessaloniki, Mt. Olympus, Apostle Paul's footprints, etc can not be Macedonia. CLAIMS TO A MACEDONIA OUTSDE OF GREECE ARE MERELY FICTITIOUS AND EXTREMELY DELUSIONAL. Over 370 Well-Known Scholars of Graeco-Roman Antiquity from around the world attest that the true Macedonia is in today's Greece where it has always been.
Μια χώρα χωρίς την Πέλλα, τη Βεργίνα,την Αιανή,τους Φιλίππους, το Δίον, την Αμφίπολη, τη Θεσσαλονίκη, το όρος. Όλυμπο, τα ίχνη του Αποστόλου Παύλου, κλπ δεν μπορεί να είναι Μακεδονία. Δηλώσεις για μια ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ ΕΚΤΟΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ απλώς παραπλανητικές φαντασιώσεις. Πάνω από 370 διεθνούς φήμης μελετητές της Ελληνο-Ρωμαϊκής Αρχαιότητος από ακαδημαϊκά κέντρα και πανεπιστήμια παγκοσμίως επιβεβαιώνουν ότι η πραγματική Μακεδονία είναι σήμερα στην Ελλάδα, όπως υπήρχε ανέκαθεν.
Ausgrabungen von Philippi
Philippi war die erste Stadt in Griechenland, in welcher der Apostel Paulus um das Jahr 50 n. Chr. das Evangelium verkündete. Hier gründete er auch die erste christliche Gemeinde auf europäischem Boden .Ausführlich auf meiner Homepage:
Thessalonike - Macedonian City
Thessalonike - Macedonian City (Not Solun)
Inscribed base of a statue of Thessaloniki, of the 2nd c. A.D., found in the area of the ancient Agora and part of a group of statues of the family of Alexander the Great.
Inscription:
ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΝ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑΝ
Inscription reading
To Queen Thessalonike, (Daughter) of Philip.
Archaeological Museum.
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The city was founded around 315 BC
by the King Cassander of Macedon, on or near the site of the ancient town of Therma and 26 other local villages. He named it after his wife Thessalonike, a half-sister of Alexander the Great and princess of Macedon as daughter of Philip II.
Under the kingdom of Macedon the city retained its own autonomy and parliament and evolved to become the most important city in Macedon.
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Robin Lane Fox
The Classical world came to Afghanistan with Alexander the Great, between 329 bc and 327, he conquered the area before moving into India, but he left behind him settlers, cities that he found it, and of course being Greeks they express their culture. The Greek legacy is so strong because the art so divine beautiful. The legacy of Greek art reach in Afghanistan by sea on every land and came up into places that Alexander formerly ruled.
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Donald Kagan - Yale university
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We know the Macedonians were fundamentally Greeks. That is to say they were Greek speakers and ethnically they were Greek.
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George Cawkwell - Oxford university
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The Macedonians were Greeks, their language was Greek.
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Historians refer to this enlarged Greek society as the Hellenistic world. At the start of his reign, the 20 year old Alexander was the crowned King of only Macedon - a crude Greek nation of north-east mainland Greece. His mother Olympias came from the ruling clan of the north-western Greek region of Epirus.
[David Sacks (1995), 'A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World',
Oxford University]
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As members of the Greek race, and speakers of the Greek language, the ancient Macedonians shared the ability to initiate ideas and create political forms.
[N G L Hammond, Professor of Greek / Fellow of the British Academy]
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The latest archaeological evidence now confirms that [ancient] Macedonia was named after a Greek speaking tribe of people called the 'Makednoi', meaning in Greek highlanders' from the Greek 'macos' meaning tall, high, or long. Their local dialect of north-western Greek was later replaced by Attic Greek.
[Roger Wilson, 'Encyclopaedia of Ancient Greece']
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What language did the Macedonians speak?
The name itself is Greek in root and ethnic termination. It means 'highlander' and is comparable to Greek tribal names such as 'Orestai' and 'Oretai' meaning 'mountain-men'. A reputedly earlier variant, 'maketai' has the same root, which means 'high' is in the Greek adjective 'makednos' or the noun 'mekos'.
[N G L Hammond, 'The Macedonian State']
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Alexander was not the first Greek to recieve divine honours in his lifetime, but the precedents were very few, and of course, inevitably inexact.
('The Greeks Crucible of Civilisation', Ch. 15, p. 228)
[Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek, Cambridge University]
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He [Alexander] achieved what no other Greek leader had accomplished, in uniting all the individual city-states into one [Greek] nation.
[John Guy, 'Greek Life', p.22]
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Hesiod first mentioned 'Makedon', the eponym of the people and the country, as a son of Zeus,a grandson of Deukalion, and so a first cousin of Aeolus, Dorus, and Xuthus; in other words he considered the 'Makedones' to be an outlying branch of the Greek-speaking tribes, with a distinctive dialect of their own, 'Macedonian'.
[N.G.L.Hammond, Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. (1996),pp.904,905]
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Ancient Macedonia was - and still is - a territory of northern Greece,
the ancient Macedonians were of Greek origin and spoke a broader rougher dialect of Greek.
[Dr. Stephen Batchelor, 'The Ancient Greeks for Dummies']
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