{"slug": "philippi", "label": "Philippi", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippi", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q379652", "qid": "Q379652", "description": "ancient city in eastern Macedonia, in the Edonis region", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [-355, 846], "span_label": ["356 BCE", "846 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "thrace", "label": "Thrace", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "first-bulgarian-empire", "label": "First Bulgarian Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "macedonia-region", "label": "Macedonia (region)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greece", "label": "Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bulgars", "label": "Bulgars", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-rome", "label": "Ancient Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christianity", "label": "Christianity", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "europe", "label": "Europe", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aegean-sea", "label": "Aegean Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "khan-title", "label": "Khan (title)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "byzantinebulgarian-wars", "label": "Byzantine–Bulgarian wars", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -355, "year_label": "356 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "With Pydna and Potidaea occupied, Philip II decides to keep Amphipolis anyway. He also takes the city of Crenides from the Odrysae and renames it Philippi.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343819365#Greece", "title": "356 BC", "revid": 1343819365, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -41, "year_label": "42 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Brutus and Cassius advance to Philippi and build fortifications. Antony links up with Norbanus and Saxa at Amphipolis, Octavian arrives on a litter 10 days later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352172627#Roman_Republic", "title": "42 BC", "revid": 1352172627, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 49, "year_label": "49 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Christianity spreads into Europe, especially at Rome and at Philippi (probable date according to chronology derived from the Acts of the Apostles).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_49", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 49"}}, {"year": 50, "year_label": "50 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Paul travels to Philippi, Thessaloniki, Beroea, and Athens (second missionary journey).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#Greece", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 50 AD › Greece"}}, {"year": 56, "year_label": "56 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The apostle Paul writes his second Epistle to the Corinthians, probably from Philippi.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#Greece", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 56 AD › Greece"}}, {"year": 481, "year_label": "481 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Theodoric Strabo defeats the Bulgars in Thrace, and moves with an army (13,000 men) towards Constantinople. After logistical problems, he is forced to return to Greece. In an encampment at Stabulum Diomedis, near Philippi, he falls from an unruly horse onto a spear and dies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789382#Europe", "title": "481", "revid": 1340789382, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 837, "year_label": "837 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Presian I, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire, sends his prime-minister Isbul against the Smolyani (a Slavic tribe in Byzantine territory near the Struma River). The Bulgarian army campaigns along the Aegean coasts, and conquers most of Thrace and Macedonia, including the fortress city of Philippi, as recorded in the Presian Inscription.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941882#Europe", "title": "837", "revid": 1340941882, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 846, "year_label": "846 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine–Bulgarian War: The Bulgarians violate the peace treaty (see 815), and invade Macedonia along the River Struma. The cities of Serres and Philippi are devastated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1308185700#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "846", "revid": 1308185700, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}