Ancient site · Greece · Partial ruin
Nicopolis
Nicopolis (Actia Nicopolis) was a major Roman foundation on the southern promontory of Epirus, established by Octavian after the Battle of Actium and developed into the capital of the province of Epirus. The archaeological site contains the remains of extensive public works — theatre, stadium, odeon, multiple basilicas, baths, an aqueduct and a monumental Augustan sanctuary — dispersed across a low coastal plain and a small northward hill.
First raised
28 BC
Its prime
AD 130
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in AD 130
What Nicopolis looked like in its prime.
A sprawling Roman city of low hills and terraces: honey-brown local stone and red brickwork bonded with pale mortar form curtain walls, vaulted chambers and long foundation courses. Scattered are semicircular stone cavea of a theatre, the linear embankment of a stadium, rectilinear basilica footprints with traces of coloured tessellated floors, and sections of aqueduct arches and the ornamental nymphaeum. Vegetation fills ruined courts and grassy approaches; exposed masonry shows brick cores and facing blocks, with occasional marble fragments and mosaic patches.
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