Editing Basilica (section)

=== Leonid period ===
On [[Crete]], the Roman cities suffered from repeated earthquakes in the 4th century, but between c. 450 and c. 550, a large number of Christian basilicas were constructed.<ref name=":13">{{Citation|last1=Laidlaw|first1=William Allison|title=Crete, Greek and Roman|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198706779.001.0001/acref-9780198706779-e-184|work=The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization|year=2014|editor-last=Hornblower|editor-first=Simon|others=Eidinow, Esther (asst ed.)|edition=2nd|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en|doi=10.1093/acref/9780198706779.001.0001|isbn=978-0-19-870677-9|last2=Nixon|first2=Lucia F.|last3=Price|first3=Simon R. F.|editor2-last=Spawforth|editor2-first=Antony}}</ref> Crete was throughout Late Antiquity a [[Roman province|province]] of the [[Diocese of Macedonia]], governed from Thessaloniki.<ref name=":13" />

Nine basilica churches were built at [[Nea Anchialos]], ancient [[Phthiotic Thebes]] ({{Langx|grc|Θη̑βαι Φθιώτιδες|translit=Thḗbai Phthiṓtides}}), which was in its heyday the primary port of [[Thessaly]]. The [[episcopal see]] was the three-aisled ''Basilica A'', the [[Hagios Demetrios|Church]] of St [[Demetrius of Thessaloniki]], and similar to the [[Church of the Acheiropoietos]] in [[Thessaloniki]].<ref name=":5">{{Citation|last=Gregory|first=Timothy E.|title=Nea Anchialos|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001/acref-9780195046526-e-3728|work=The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium|year=2005|editor-last=Kazhdan|editor-first=Alexander P.|orig-year=1991|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en|doi=10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001|isbn=978-0-19-504652-6}}</ref> Its atrium perhaps had a pair of towers to either side and its construction dates to the late 5th/early 6th century.<ref name=":5" /> The Elpidios Basilica {{En dash}} ''Basilica B'' {{En dash}} was of similar age, and the city was home to a large complex of ecclesiastical buildings including ''Basilica G'', with its luxurious mosaic floors and a mid-6th century inscription proclaiming the patronage of the bishop Peter. Outside the [[defensive wall]] was ''Basilica D'', a 7th-century cemetery church.<ref name=":5" />

[[Stobi]], ({{Langx|grc|Στόβοι|translit=Stóboi}}) the capital from the late 4th century of the province of [[Macedonia Salutaris|Macedonia II Salutaris]], had numerous basilicas and six palaces in late antiquity.<ref name=":6">{{Citation|last=Kazhdan|first=Alexander P.|title=Stobi|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001/acref-9780195046526-e-5149|work=The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium|year=2005|editor-last=Kazhdan|editor-first=Alexander P.|orig-year=1991|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en|doi=10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001|isbn=978-0-19-504652-6}}</ref> The ''Old Basilica'' had two phases of geometric pavements, the second phase of which credited the bishop Eustathios as patron of the renovations. A newer episcopal basilica was built by the bishop Philip atop the remains of the earlier structure, and two further basilicas were within the walls.<ref name=":6" /> The ''Central Basilica'' replaced a [[synagogue]] on a site razed in the late 5th century, and there was also a ''North Basilica'' and further basilicas without the walls.<ref name=":6" /> Various mosaics and sculptural decorations have been found there, and while the city suffered from the [[Ostrogoths]] in 479 and an earthquake in 518, ceasing to be a major city thereafter, it remained a bishopric until the end of the 7th century and the ''Basilica of Philip'' had its ''[[templon]]'' restored in the 8th century.<ref name=":6" />

The [[Small Basilica, Plovdiv|Small Basilica]] of [[Philippopolis (Thrace)|Philippopolis]] (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) in [[Thrace]] was built in the second half of the 5th century AD.

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File:Mosque of Eski Djouma Thessalonica Transversal section Longitudinal section - Texier Charles - 1864.jpg|Drawing of the 5th century [[Church of the Acheiropoietos]] by [[Charles Texier]], 1864
File:Church of the Acheiropoietos (Thessaloniki) by Joy of Museums.jpg|[[House of Leo|Leonid]] basilica [[Church of the Acheiropoietos]], Thessaloniki, 450–60
File:Basilique à tours - mosaïque Louvre.jpg|5th-century mosaic of a basilica ([[Louvre]])
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