Dealing with conflict at Philippi
The city of Philippi was a Roman colony in Macedonia, which was named after Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great. It was located on an important trade route between Europe and Asia, which was the main route between Italy and the Middle East. The Egnatian Way was a Roman military highway from the Adriatic Sea (near Italy) to Byzantium (now Istanbul, near the Black Sea). It went 1120 km (696 miles) from modern Albania to modern Turkey. (more…)





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