ANCIENT SOURCES
 

 

LITERARY SOURCES
 

 

 

Author

Claudius Ptolemeus

Work

Geographia III, 11, 7

Notes

First mentions the name of the town.

 

 

Author

Dexippos

Work

 

Notes

Mentions the city.

 

 

Author

Ammianus Marcellianus

Work

 

Notes

Mentions the city.

 

 

Author

Hierocles

Work

Hieroclis Synecdemos

Notes

Mentions the city.

 

 

Author

Ioardanes

Work

Getica, 201

Notes

The siege of the city by the Goths under Kniva

 

 

Author

Procopius

Work

De Aedificiis, IV, 11

Notes

He mentions that the city has been rebuilt by the emperor Justinian

 

 

Author

Theofylactus Simocatta

Work

Vita Mauricii

Notes

He mentions the city in relation to the campaign of the Byzantian general Commentiolus against the emperor Mauricius

 

 

Author

 

Work

Tabula Peutingeriana

Notes

Mentions the city.

 

 

 

EPIGRAPHIC SOURCES
 

 

 

 

 

Type of object

coins

Type of information

Nikopolis ad Istrum + the names of  different emperors and magistrates: Septimus Severus, Magistarte Gallus; Elagabalus, Magistrate Novius Rufus; Macrinus, Magistrate Claudius Agrippa; Diadumenian; Gordian III, Magistrate Modestus

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