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Octavian's victory, because Antony had based his …

Years: 31BCE - 31BCE
October

Octavian's victory, because Antony had based his land forces in Greece, makes the Greek world an integral and permanent part of the Roman Empire.

Octavian builds Nicopolis ("City of Victory"), near present Préveza to commemorate his victory at Actium, symbolically representing his successful unification of the Roman Empire under one administration and, geographically, a major transportation and communications point linking the eastern and western halves of the Mediterranean.

On the spot where Octavian's own tent had been pitched, he builds a monument adorned with the beaks of the captured galleys; and in further celebration of his victory he institutes the so-called Aktian games, to be held every five years in honor of Apollo Aktios.

He also enlarges the existing temple of Apollo at Actium.

The new polis is given the territories of southern Epiros including Ambrakia, most of Akarnania, and western Aetolia.

Many inhabitants of the surrounding areas—Kassopaia, Ambrakia, parts of Akarnania (including Leukas, Palairos, Amphilochikon, Calydon, and Lysimachia) and western Aetolia—are forced to relocate to the new city.

The exact legal status of Nikopolis is the subject of some dispute, having the characteristics of civitas libera, civitas foederata, and as colonia, implying that Roman military veterans also settle here.

The city will prove highly successful, and it is considered the capital of southern Epirus and Akarnania.

Among other things, it obtains the right to send five representatives to the Amphictyonic Council.

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