Ἀπάμεια

Apameia, Apamea

Translated by Jennifer Benedict26 Nov 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

2 words

Translation

A city.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀπάμεια· πόλις.

Betacode
*)apa/meia: po/lis. 

Notes

  1. At least 6 cities of this name are known, 3 in Turkey, 1 each in modern Syria, Iraq and Iran. The 2 most likely to be meant are the city on the site of Kelainai/Celaenae in Phrygia and the one also known as Pella, the landward side of the Lebanon Mts at Qalaat el-Moudiq in Syria.

References


Cohen, Getzel M., The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Cohen, Getzel M., The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Grainger, John D. A, Seleukid Prosopography and Gazetteer. Leiden: Brill, 1997, pp. 688-9.

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Revision history4 revisions · last 2 Aug 2011
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. augmented bibliography — Mehmet Fatih Yavuz
  3. changed comment — Nicholas Fincher
  4. added note, bibliography, keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

“Apameia, Apamea.” Suda On Line. Tr. Jennifer Benedict. 26 November 2000. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/2888>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/alpha/2888>.

Translation by Jennifer Benedict for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Mehmet Fatih Yavuz, Nicholas Fincher, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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