Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Nicopolis_ad_Nestum> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 85 of
85
with 100 triples per page.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum abstract "Nicopolis ad Nestum or Nicopolis ad Mestum is a ruined Roman town of the province of Thracia (Thrace) near to the modern village of Garmen on the left bank of the Mesta river, in Garmen Municipality, Bulgaria. Although "ad Nestum" is the more commonly used alternative, "ad Mestum" (which is what appears, in Greek, on the coins of the city) is the correct form of the name during the Roman period. The town was one of two fortified towns founded to mark Emperor Trajan’s victory in 105-106 AD over the Dacians. The area had been inhabited for about 14 centuries and attained its peak in late antiquity (4th-6th centuries AD). The original town occupied about 25-30 decаres. The Slavs destroyed Nicopolis in the 6th-7th centuries but it re-emerged as a medieval settlement in the late 10th century.Excavations have cleared 280 metres of fortress walls, administrative and religious buildings and tumuli. Several archaeological finds have been made, including a votive relief of the Thracian horseman, a statuette of Hermes, an old Christian tumulus, over 95 gold and 22 other coins, glass, bronze and ceramic vessels and a ritual table. Some of these findings can be seen in the historical museum at Gotse Delchev. Close to Nicopolis ad Mestum there are remains of two early Christian basilica (4th century AD), which are believed to be part of the same site. The basilicas have mosaic floors with geometric and natural motifs.Nicopolis ad Mestum issued coins only once, under Caracalla and Geta, with heads of Caracalla, Geta and (more rarely) their mother Julia Domna on the obverses and mostly fairly standard reverse types of Tyche, Hygieia, Ares, Nemesis, etc. Coins of other rulers (e.g. Commodus) referred to in some catalogues are forgeries or misread coins of other cities. Battered coins of Nicopolis ad Istrum in Lower Moesia, perhaps the most prolific mint in the Roman Balkans in the early third century, are often mistaken for issues of Mestum. The emission of coins from Nicopolis ad Mestum has been dated to the year 211, more precisely to the period between the death of Septimius Severus in February and the murder of Geta in December, by the German scholar Holger Komnick, author of the only comprehensive study of the coinage of this city (in the series Griechisches Münzwerk of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities). This German-language publication has been reviewed by Francis Jarman in the March 2004 issue of The Celator. There is a listing of many of the types, with photographs, in Varbanov's catalogue of Roman provincial coins from the Balkans; however, the descriptions are often inaccurate, and Varbanov's estimates of rarity and value should be ignored. All the coins of Nicopolis ad Mestum are rare, and some extremely so. Komnick listed only 237 in his catalogue, and Jarman refers to a "grand total of about 300 [known coins]".".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum thumbnail Nicopolis_ad_Nestum.jpg?width=300.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageID "15633699".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageLength "4358".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageOutDegree "38".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageRevisionID "641279226".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Rome.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Ares.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Basilica.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Berlin-Brandenburg_Academy_of_Sciences_and_Humanities.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Bulgaria.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Caracalla.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Catholic_titular_sees_in_Europe.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Former_populated_places_in_Bulgaria.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Roman_towns_and_cities_in_Bulgaria.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Commodus.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Dacians.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Decare.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Garmen.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Garmen_Municipality.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Gotse_Delchev,_Blagoevgrad_Province.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Gotse_Delchev_(town).
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Greek_language.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Hectare.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Hermes.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Hygieia.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Julia_Domna.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Lower_Moesia.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Medieval.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Mesta_river.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Middle_Ages.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Moesia.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Mosaic.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Nemesis_(mythology).
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Nestos_(river).
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Nicopolis_ad_Istrum.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Publius_Septimius_Geta.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Roman_province.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Septimius_Severus.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Slavs.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink The_Celator.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Thrace.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Thracia.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Thracia_(Roman_province).
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Thracian_horseman.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Trajan.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Trajans_Dacian_Wars.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Tumuli.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Tumulus.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink Tyche.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLink File:Nicopolis_ad_Nestum.jpg.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nicopolis ad Nestum".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nicopolis".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nikopolis ad Nestum".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageWikiLinkText "Titular Archbishop of Nicopolis ad Nestum".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum hasPhotoCollection Nicopolis_ad_Nestum.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Commons_category.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Coord.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Garmen_Municipality.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Other_places.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum subject Category:Catholic_titular_sees_in_Europe.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum subject Category:Former_populated_places_in_Bulgaria.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum subject Category:Roman_towns_and_cities_in_Bulgaria.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum hypernym Town.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum point "41.595555555555556 23.795833333333334".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum type Place.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum type Settlement.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum type Place.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum type Site.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum type SpatialThing.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum comment "Nicopolis ad Nestum or Nicopolis ad Mestum is a ruined Roman town of the province of Thracia (Thrace) near to the modern village of Garmen on the left bank of the Mesta river, in Garmen Municipality, Bulgaria. Although "ad Nestum" is the more commonly used alternative, "ad Mestum" (which is what appears, in Greek, on the coins of the city) is the correct form of the name during the Roman period.".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum label "Nicopolis ad Nestum".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum sameAs Никополис_ад_Нестум.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum sameAs Nicopolis_ad_Nestum.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum sameAs Nicopolis_ad_Nestum.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum sameAs m.05qbd3g.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum sameAs 728779.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum sameAs Q951149.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum sameAs Q951149.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum lat "41.595555555555556".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum long "23.795833333333334".
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum wasDerivedFrom Nicopolis_ad_Nestum?oldid=641279226.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum depiction Nicopolis_ad_Nestum.jpg.
- Nicopolis_ad_Nestum isPrimaryTopicOf Nicopolis_ad_Nestum.