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Plain of Philippi
ID: GNMTPPS02 · © Carl Rasmussen · Added: 2011

Plain of Philippi

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View looking southwest across the Roman Forum to the Plain of Philippi. It was here in 42 B.C. the Octavian (later Augustus) and Mark Antony defeated the armies of Brutus and Cassius—bringing to an end the Roman Republic.