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The Monuments — I: Constantine to Justin I

Early Fourth to Early Sixth Century

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It is appropriate that this survey of the Early Byzantine churches of Macedonia and the territory extending immediately to its north should start, chronologically and geographically, at Philippi, the first city in Europe to receive the Gospel of Christianity from St Paul. Here, in 1956 and 1957, on a site outside the old walls, a short distance from the Neapolis (Kavalla) gate, Pelekanides discovered and excavated a Christian basilica dating from the first half of the fourth century and probably from the reign of Constantine the Great.1 One of the oldest churches yet excavated, prior to its discovery the existence of the ‘Extra Muros’ Basilica had been unsuspected, no record or indication of it appearing in any documentary source.

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Hoddinott, R.F. (1963). The Monuments — I: Constantine to Justin I. In: Early Byzantine Churches in Macedonia and Southern Serbia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81619-4_9

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