Apamea
Ancient city · Syria
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 299 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 35.421, 36.400
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: античный город в Сирии
History
Apamea is an ancient Hellenistic and Roman city situated on the right bank of the Orontes River, in the northwest of modern Syria. Founded under the name Pella as a Macedonian military settlement following the Wars of the Diadochi, it was established as a fortified city around 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator, who renamed it after his wife, Apama. The city served as the capital of Apamene under the Seleucids and later became capital of the Roman province of Syria Secunda, a status it retained into the Crusader period.