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The Philippi covered bridge as seen from the northeast end, photograph by Hu Maxwell in The History of Barbour County, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to...

Philip II of Macedon (359-336 BCE) envisaged a broad Macedonian kingdom and his colonial expansion resulted in the forging of an empire that his son Alexander the Great (r. 336-323 BCE) would use as a springboard...

The Philippi covered bridge across the Tygart Valley River, photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, Philippi, West Virginia, 3 May 2015. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The Battle of Actium (2 September 31 BCE, fought in the Ionian Sea off Actium, Greece) was the decisive engagement of the civil war fought between Octavian Caesar (l. 63-14 CE, later known as Augustus, r. 27 BCE - 14 CE) and the...

Town of Phillippi, Barbour County, West Virginia, lithographic print after sketching by Mrs. M. D. Pool, 1861.

Marcus Junius Brutus (85 BCE to 42 BCE) was a Roman senator most famous for his role in the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March (15 March) 44 BCE. Said to have been descended from the...

The Roman forum of Philippi, Macedon. In the background are the remains of the large Basilica B, c. 550 CE.

Situated in North Greece at the border of East Macedonia and Thrace, ancient Philippi stood about 16 km N-NW of the port city Neapolis (modern Kavalla) and originally bore the name Krenides (from the Greek for “spring”) in...

The theatre of Philippi, Macedon, built during the reign of Philip II in the 4th century BCE.

The Battle of Britain, dated 10 July to 31 October, 1940 by the UK Air Ministry, was an air battle between the German Luftwaffe and British Royal Air Force and allies during the Second World War (1939-45). The Luftwaffe failed...