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Philippi in Thrace



Famous in antiquity as the place where Cassius and Brutus were defeated by the avengers of Julius Cæsar, Philippi was one of the major ecclesiastical centres in the Eastern Empire, but later became a stronghold of the Bogomil heresy.

Under construction --- far from complete! Read with caution.



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