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NIKIFORION (Ancient city) SYRIA
Nicephorium (Nikephorion, Strab. xvi. p. 747; Ptol. v. 18. § 6; Steph.
B. s. v.), a place of considerable importance in Mesopotamia, on the river Euphrates.
According to Isidorus (Mans. Parth. i. ed. Muller) and Pliny (v. 24. s. 21, vi.
26. s. 30), it owed its foundation to Alexander the Great; according, however,
to Appian, to Seleucus I., which is much more likely (Syriac. c. 57). It is mentioned
by Dion Cassius (xl. 13) and by Tacitus (Ann. vi. 40), but simply as one of many
towns founded by the Macedonians. Strabo calls it a town of the Mygdonians in
Mesopotamia (xvi. p. 747). Nothing is known of its intermediate history; but Justinian
erected a fortress here (Procop. de Aedif. ii. 7); and the emperor Leo, who probably
added several new works to it, is said to have changed its name to Leontopolis.
(Cf. Hierocl. p. 715; and Chron. Edess. ap. Assemani, i. p. 405.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(Nikephorion). A fortified town of Mesopotamia, on the Euphrates, and due south of Edessa, built by order of Alexander the Great, and probably completed under Seleucus. It is identical with Callinicus. Still later it was called Leontopolis.
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