Listed 4 sub titles with search on: Various locations for wider area of: "KAVALA Prefecture GREECE" .
FILIPPI (Ancient city) KAVALA
Gangas, Gangites (Gangas, Gangites, Appian, B.C. iv. 106), a river
of Macedonia, which takes its rise at and flows round Philippi; after its confluence
with the Zygactes the united streams bore the name of the Angites (Anghista),
which was so called from the branch at Philippi. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol.
iii. p. 225.) It was by this river side (Acts, xvi. 13), the fountains of which
gave the name to the city, before the time of Philip of Macedon -Crenides, the
Place of Fountains,- that the Proseucha was situated (in consequence of the ablutions
which were connected with the worship) in which the Gospel was first preached
within the limits of Europe. (Comp. Coneybeare and Howson, Life and Epistles of
St. Paul, vol. i. p. 316.)
NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) KAVALA
Acontisma a station in Macedonia on the coast and on the Via Egnatia, 8 or 9 miles eastward of Neapolis, is placed by Leake near the end of the passes of the Sapaei, which were formed by the mountainous coast stretching eastward from Kavala. Tafel considers it to be identical with Christopolis and the modern Kavala. (Amm. Marc. xxvii. 4; It. Ant. and Hierocl.; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 180; Tafel, De Viae Egnatiae Parte Orient. p. 13, seq.)
THASSOS (Island) MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE
A place in Thasos: Hdt. 6.47
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