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The colony, composed of settlers from a great many of the towns of the neighboring countries ( Ambracia , Anactoriuni , Calydon , Argos Amphilochicum, Leucas etc.), proved highly successful, and the city was considered the capital of southern Epirus and Acarnania , and obtained the right of sending five representatives to the Amphictyonic council. On the spot where Octavian's own tent had been pitched he built a monument adorned with the beaks of the captured galleys; and in further celebration of his victory he instituted the so-called Actian Games in honor of Apollo Actius. The city was restored by the emperor Julian , and again after the Gothic invasion by Justinian ; but in the course of the Middle Ages it was supplanted by the town of Preveza . The ruins of Nicopolis, now known as Palaia Preveza (Old Preveza) lie about 3 miles north of that city, on a small bay of the Gulf Of Arta (Sinus Ambracius) at the narrowest part of the isthmus of the peninsula which separates the gulf from the Ionian Sea . Besides the Acropolis , the most conspicuous objects are two theatres (the larger with 77 rows of seats) and an Aqueduct which brought water to the town from a distance of 27 miles. There are several other places named Nicopolis:
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