NICOPOLIS nĭ kŏp’ ə lĭs (Νικόπολις, G3776, city of victory). A city selected by Augustus and built as his capital of Epirus. He had camped there prior to the battle of Actium, in 31 b.c. He built the city on a promontory of the Ambracian Gulf, to celebrate his decisive victory over Mark Antony. It was situated on the W coast of Greece in the Gulf of Arta. As a Rom. colony, the town had some reputation for the Actian games, also established there by Augustus.

Although there are other towns named Nicopolis, it is likely that this was the rendezvous that the Apostle Paul planned to use as a base from which to evangelize in Epirus (Titus 3:12). The other sites would scarcely have warranted Paul’s intention to spend a whole winter in the town. Nicopolis had significant commerce and fisheries. It was later destroyed by the Goths, and though rebuilt by Justinian it was subsequently supplanted by Preveza, on a site further S. Nicopolis has extensive ruins, but the site has not been excavated by archeologists.