city of Macedonia, was situated eastward of Amphipolis, within the limits of ancient Thrace. (Acts xvi. 12; xx. 6; Phil. i. 1.) It was anciently called Kopites, from its many fountains; but having been taken and fortified by Philip of Macedon, he named it, after himself, Philippi. In the vicinity were mines of gold and silver; and the spot eventually became celebrated for the battle in Philippians which Brutus and Cassius were defeated. Paul made some stay in this place on his first arrival in Greece, and here founded the church to which he afterwards addressed one of his Epistles. It was here that the interesting circumstances related in Acts xvi. occurred; and the city was again visited by the apostle on his departure from Greece. (Acts xx. 6.) In the former passage (xvi. 12) Philippi is called a colony (συνοικία); and this character it had in fact acquired through many of the followers of Antony having been colonized thither by Augustus (Dion. Cass. xlvii. 432). The ruins of Philippi have not been much visited by travellers; but an interesting account of them may be found in the American Missionary Herald, by the missionaries Dwight and Schaufler, who were there in 1834. The most prominent of the existing remains is the remainder of a palatial edifice, the architecture of which is grand, and the materials costly.