Nicopsis

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Nicopsia on a modern map of the Kingdom of Georgia early in the 13th century.

Nicopsis, Nikopsis, or Nikopsia (

Simon the Canaanite
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Early records

Nikopsis first appears in the anonymous periplus of the 5th century as a Black Sea locale otherwise known as Palaia Lazike ("Old Lazica"), a toponym also mentioned in the 2nd-century Periplus of the Euxine Sea by Arrian.[1] This name suggests that the area was a scene of a considerable tribal movement[2] or, in the view of Anthony Bryer, could have been the original homeland of the Laz people.[3]

Middle Ages

Nikopsis, as Napsa (ნაფსაჲ), appears as a

Constantine Porphyrogenitus in the 10th century.[6][7]

The

Derbend on the Caspian.[8] It first appears in the controversial testament will of David IV "the Builder", composed (or forged) in 1125,[9] and recurs in the chronicles of the reigns of his successors, especially, Queen Tamar (r. 1184–1213).[7][10]

Christianity

According to the 9th-century Byzantine author

Justinian in the 6th century. In the middle of the 10th century, the see of Nikopsis was abolished or moved to Matracha.[12]

Location

The location of Nikopsis is not known. A popular, but not universally accepted hypothesis first advanced by Frédéric Dubois de Montpéreux and followed by Fillip Brun,

Tsandripsh/Gantiadi, where there are the ruins of an early medieval basilica.[12][13]

References

  1. ISBN 0691049459
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  2. ISBN 1853996610
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  3. ISBN 0860782220
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  4. ^ Huxley, George Leonard (1982). "Topics in Byzantine Historical Geography". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature. 82C: 99.
  5. ^ Margit, Bíró (1977). "Abo's Georgian "Vita"". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 31 (2): 251.
  6. ^ a b Mango, Cyril (2002). "A Journey Round the Coast of the Black Sea in the Ninth Century". Palaeoslavica. 10 (1): 262.
  7. ^ a b c Anchabadze, Zurab (1959). Из истории средневековой Абхазии [From the history of medieval Abkhazia] (in Russian). Sukhumi: Abkhazian State Publishing. pp. 67, 110, 187.
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  9. ISBN 978-1-78023-030-6
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  10. ISBN 90-256-0965-1
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  11. ^ Lang, David Marshall (1976). Lives and legends of the Georgian saints. Mowbrays. p. 167.
  12. ^ a b Vinogradov, Andrey Y. (2014). "Зихия [Zichia]". Православная Энциклопедия [Orthodox Encyclopaeda] (in Russian). Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  13. ISBN 2503523870
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