Laodicea
Ancient city · Syria
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 35.519, 35.777
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Hellenistic coastal city, the modern Latakia
History
Laodicea was a port city and important colonia of the Roman Empire in ancient Syria, near the modern city of Latakia. It was also called Laodicea in Syria, Laodicea-by-the-Sea or Laodicea ad Mare.