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Apamea

Hellenistic · Syria

Field notes

civilizations: HellenisticRoman
types: City
built: 300 BCE
occupied: 300 BCE — 1,152 CE
country: Syria

The site

Apamea is a Hellenistic city in western Syria, one of several bearing the name given in honor of Apama, the Sogdian wife of Seleucus I Nicator. Founded around 300 BCE, it endured as a settlement for well over a thousand years. Now on UNESCO's tentative list, its long avenues mark it as a major center of the Seleucid and later Roman Near East.

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