Historical place profile
Neapolis (Kavalla)
An ancient port city on the coast of Thrace, Neapolis (modern Kavalla in the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace in Greece) was probably founded from Thasos in the seventh century BCE. It served as the port for Philippi in Hellenistic and Roman times, and was refortified by Justinian in the sixth century CE.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:501523
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:501523
- Place type
- port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 40.934324, 24.414039
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient port city on the coast of Thrace, Neapolis (modern Kavalla in the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace in Greece) was probably founded from Thasos in the seventh century BCE. It served as the port for Philippi in Hellenistic and Roman times, and was refortified by Justinian in the sixth century CE.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 51 C3 Neapolis
Source and reuse
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Research path
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