ne-apolis Summary and Overview
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ne-apolis in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(new city) is the place in northern Greece where Paul and his associates first landed in Europe. #Ac 16:11| where, no doubt, he landed also on his second visit to Macedonia, #Ac 20:1| and whence certainly he embarked on his last journey through that province to Troas and Jerusalem. #Ac 20:6| Philippi being an inland town, Neapolis was evidently the port, and is represented by the present Kavalla. (Kavalla is a city of 5000 or 6000 inhabitants, Greeks and Turks. Neapolis was situated within the bounds of Thrace, ten miles from Philippi, on a high rocky promontory jutting out into the AEgean Sea, while a temple of Diana crowned the hill-top. --ED.)