Philippi
Philippi is an archaeological site in Macedonian Greece. It belongs since 2016 to UNESCO World Heritage List.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient city in eastern Macedonia, in the Edonis region
- Also known as: “Filippoi / Philippi” and “Fílippoi / Philippi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Filippoi and Ancient Theatre of Philippi.
Ancient Theatre of Philippi
Theater building
Photo: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ancient Theatre of Philippi is a theater building.
Dikili Tash
Archaeological site
Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dikili Tash is a prehistoric tell settlement rising 16 m above the Drama plain in Eastern Macedonia, c. 1.5 km east of ancient Philippi. It is about 4.5 hectares.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Krinides and Lydia.
Krinides
Town
Photo: Timeheritage, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Krinides is a town in the Kavala regional unit in eastern Macedonia, Greece. It was the seat of the former municipality of Filippoi. The ruins of the ancient city Philippi are close to the town.
Philippi
- Categories: ancient city, polis, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Kavala, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
41.0135° or 41° 0′ 49″ northLongitude
24.2841° or 24° 17′ 3″ eastElevation
63 metres (207 feet)Open location code
8GH6277M+9MOpenStreetMap ID
way 245445583OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Welsh—“Philippi” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Φἱλιπποι”
- Armenian: “Ֆիլիպի”
- Basque: “Filipos”
- Belarusian: “Філіпы”
- Bosnian: “Arheološko nalazište Filipi”
- Bulgarian: “Филипи”
- Catalan: “Filipos”
- Catalan: “Filips”
- Cebuano: “Fílippoi”
- Chinese: “腓立比”
- Croatian: “Filipi”
- Czech: “Filippoi”
- Czech: “Filipy”
- Danish: “Filippi”
- Danish: “Philippi”
- Dutch: “Filippi”
- Dutch: “Fillipi”
- Dutch: “Philippi”
- Esperanto: “Filipio”
- Finnish: “Filippi”
- Finnish: “Filippoi”
- French: “Philippes”
- Galician: “Filipos”
- Galician: “Philippi”
- Georgian: “ფილიპი”
- German: “Datos”
- German: “Krenides”
- German: “Krinides”
- German: “Philippi”
- German: “Phillipi”
- Greek: “Fílippoi”
- Greek: “Φίλιπποι”
- Hebrew: “פיליפי”
- Hindi: “फिलिप्पी”
- Hungarian: “Filippi”
- Indonesian: “Filipi”
- Indonesian: “Philippi”
- Italian: “Filippi”
- Japanese: “ピリッポイ”
- Japanese: “ピリピ”
- Japanese: “フィリピ”
- Korean: “필리피”
- Latin: “Philippi”
- Lithuanian: “Filipai”
- Macedonian: “Филипи”
- Malagasy: “Filipy”
- Maltese: “Crenides”
- Maltese: “Filippi”
- Maltese: “Philippi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Filippi”
- Norwegian: “Filippi”
- Persian: “فیلیپی”
- Polish: “Filippi”
- Portuguese: “Filipos”
- Romanian: “Filipi”
- Romanian: “Filippi”
- Romanian: “Philippi”
- Russian: “Филиппы”
- Scots: “Philippi”
- Serbian: “Filipi”
- Serbian: “Филипи”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Filipi”
- Slovenian: “Filipi, Grčija”
- Slovenian: “Filipi”
- Spanish: “Filipos”
- Swahili: “Filipi”
- Swedish: “Filippi”
- Tamil: “பிலிப்பி”
- Tatar: “Филиппи борынгы каласы археологик урыны”
- Turkish: “Filippi”
- Turkish: “Philippi”
- Ukrainian: “Філіпи”
- Ukrainian: “Філіппи”
- Urdu: “فلپی”
- Waray (Philippines): “Filipi”
- Welsh: “Philippi”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Philippi”. Photo: DocWoKav, CC BY-SA 4.0.