Philippopolis, Thrace

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Philippopolis is Plovdiv, Bulgaria today. A Neolithic settlement dating around 4000 B.C. establishes Plovdiv as among the world's oldest cities. It was a walled Thracian city called Eumolpias when it was conquered by Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great. He renamed it Philippopolis. When it regained independence, the new Thracian name was Pulpudeva. In Latin it was sometimes called Trimontium (City of Three Hills). An important crossroads in the Roman Empire, it became the capital of Roman Thracia.

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Philippopolis There were two cities of this name: one in Thrace dignified with the title of metropolis; the other in Arabia, which was included amongst the number of the Roman colonies. The Thracian Philippopolis (now Plovdiv, Bulgaria), does not appear to have been a Roman colony; but its Imperial coins are very numerous, beginning with Domitian, and extending to Salonina, wife of Gallienus. The pieces of Domitian have Latin legends on the side of the head - namely, IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XIIII CENS PER P P Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus Consul (for the fourteenth time) Censor Perpetuus Pater Patriae. On the reverse in Greek characters Philippopolitarum. A woman with turreted crown stands holding patera and branch: at her feet is the recumbent personification of a river. This large brass bilingual coin is published in Eckhel's Doct. Num. Vet., and is also noted in his Catalogue of the Imperial Museum at Vienna. The Arabian Philippopolis was founded by Philip senior, in honour of his native country. One coin of this Philippopolis, edited by Vaillant (ii. p173), has its legend, both of the obverse and reverse, in Greek. It is a first brass of elegant design, inscribed to Philip, who colonized as well as built the city; and the type is Rome seated, holding in her hand an eagle, on which are placed the images of the Emperor and his son.
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