Abstract
Subject of the present study is the ancient town of Nicopolis, which was built in Epirus (Greece) by the Roman Emperor Octavius to commemorate the great victory which he won at the naval battle of Actium (31 B.C.), in which he defeated his adversaries General Marc Antony, and Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt. The aerial photographs used for this study reveal the existence of a Roman cadastral in the area of Nicopolis and permit us to determine its location, the area it covered and its form. These photographs clearly prove the existence of a Roman cadastral divided by clusters of parallel and equidistant lines which intersect at right angles. The forms determined by these lines on the ground are square, the sides being about 710 m (ca. 777 yards), which is a characteristic element of the Roman cadastral. The study is supplemented by some remarks on the precision of the alignment of this cadastral.
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