Nicopsia
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thumbnail|right|Nicopsia on a modern map of the Kingdom of Georgia early in the 13th century.
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It sits within the topics Byzantine forts, Defunct dioceses of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and Former populated places in Russia.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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6 sectionsContents
- Early records
- Middle Ages
- Christianity
- Location
- References
- External links
thumbnail|right|Nicopsia on a modern map of the Kingdom of Georgia early in the 13th century.
Nicopsis, Nikopsis, or Nikopsia (; ; ) was a medieval fortress and town on the northeastern Black Sea coast, somewhere between the Russian towns of Tuapse and Gelendzhik. It features in the medieval Greek and Georgian sources as a Byzantine outpost and then as the northwestern extreme of the Kingdom of Georgia. A center of Christianity in the region known as Zichia, Nikopsis was at times a Byzantine bishopric and was believed to be a burial place of the apostle Simon the Canaanite.
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