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In 3 BCE, Herod's son, Philip (also known as Philip the Tetrarch) founded a city which became his administrative capital, known from Josephus [20] and the Gospels of Matthew and Mark as Caesarea or Caesarea Philippi, to distinguish it from Caesarea Maritima and other cities named Caesarea (Matthew 16, Matthew 16:13, Mark 8, Mark 8:27).
Philippi (/ f ɪ ˈ l ɪ p aɪ, ˈ f ɪ l ə ˌ p aɪ /; Greek: Φίλιπποι, Phílippoi) was a major Greek city northwest of the nearby island, Thasos. Its original name was Crenides ( Greek : Κρηνῖδες , Krēnĩdes "Fountains") [ 1 ] after its establishment by Thasian colonists in 360/359 BC.
Philip the Tetrarch. Philip the Tetrarch (c. 26 BCE – 34 CE), sometimes called Herod Philip II by modern writers (see "Naming convention") was the son of Herod the Great and his fifth wife, Cleopatra of Jerusalem. As a Tetrarch, he ruled over the northeast part of his father's kingdom between 4 BCE and 34 CE after Herod's death.
Batanaea or Batanea was an area often mentioned between the first century BC until the fourth century AD. It is often mixed with the biblical Bashan as its hellenized/latinized form (of Bashan) and as a part of the Biblical Holy Land, northeast of the Jordan River. According to old explorations, maps and research, the Batanea was much more a ...
Caesarea Maritima: This port city is the location of the 1961 discovery of the Pilate stone, the only archaeological item that mentions the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate, by whose order Jesus was crucified. [2] [3] [35] Sychar: The encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4:4–26 takes place in Sychar in Samaria near Jacob's Well ...
Description. According to Revelation 1:11, on the island of Patmos in the far east of the Aegean Sea, Jesus instructed John of Patmos to " [w]rite in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea." [a] The churches in this context refers to ...
Via Egnatia by Resen in North Macedonia, now part of A-3 motorway. The Via Egnatia was a road constructed by the Romans in the 2nd century BC. It crossed Illyricum, Macedonia, and Thracia, running through territory that is now part of modern Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, and European Turkey as a continuation of the Via Appia.
The plaque in Málaga, Spain, commemorating López de Villalobos for naming the Philippines. Some sources credit his captain Bernardo de la Torre for the name instead. A 1561 map of Southeast Asia by the Italian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi, using the name Philippine Island (Latin: Philippina) for Leyte but not the entire archipelago