Syria
Orontes Valley
Hama Governorate

Apamea

Apamea, on the right bank of the Orontes River, was an ancient Greek and Roman city. It was the capital of Apamene under the Macedonians, became the capital and Metropolitan Archbishopric of late Roman province Syria Secunda, again in the crusader period.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: ancient city in Al-Suqaylabiyah, Syria
  • Also known as: “Afamiya”, “Afāmiyā”, “Afamiyah”, “Afāmiyah”, “Apamea (Samian Ware Discovery Site)”, “Apamea, Syria”, “Apamean, Al-Suqaylabiyah”, “Apameia”, “Apameia (zaniklé město)”, “Apameia ad Orontes”, “Khirbah Bīzanţīyah Afāmiyā”, “Ruines d‘ Aramee”, “Ruines d’Aramée”, and “آفاميا”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Qalaat al-Madiq.

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is a town and medieval fortress in northwestern , administratively part of the , located northwest of . It is situated in the al-Ghab plain, on the eastern bank of the .

Apamea

Latitude
35.4207° or 35° 25′ 14″ north
Longitude
36.4019° or 36° 24′ 7″ east
Elevation
256 metres (840 feet)
Open location code
8G7RCCC2+7P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 216267055
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
173146
Wiki­data ID
Q617550
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Urdu—“Apamea” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀπάμεıα”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Απάμεια τῆς Συρίας”
  • Arabic: “أفاميا”
  • Arabic: “أفامية”
  • Arabic: “افاميا”
  • Arabic: “خربة بيزنطية افاميا”
  • Arabic: “فامية”
  • Armenian: “Աֆամեա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Apameya”
  • Basque: “Apamea”
  • Belarusian: “Апамея (Сірыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Апамея”
  • Belarusian: “Апамэя”
  • Bengali: “আপামিয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Апамея”
  • Catalan: “Apamea de l’Orontes”
  • Catalan: “Apamea”
  • Catalan: “Femia”
  • Catalan: “Kalaat al-Mudiq”
  • Catalan: “Pharnake”
  • Chinese: “东方的阿帕梅亚”
  • Chinese: “東方的阿帕梅亞”
  • Chinese: “阿帕梅亚”
  • Chinese: “阿帕梅亞”
  • Chinese: “阿帕米亚（Apamea）”
  • Chinese: “阿帕米亚”
  • Chinese: “阿帕米亞（Apamea）”
  • Chinese: “阿帕米亞”
  • Czech: “Apameia (zaniklé město)”
  • Czech: “Apameia”
  • Danish: “Apamea”
  • Dutch: “Apamea”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “افاميا”
  • Esperanto: “Apameo”
  • Estonian: “Apameia”
  • Finnish: “Apameia”
  • French: “Apamee”
  • French: “Apamée”
  • French: “Qal’at al-Madhiq”
  • French: “Ruines d‘ Apamée”
  • Galician: “Apamea”
  • German: “Apamea am Orontes”
  • German: “Apamea”
  • German: “Apameia (zaniklé město)”
  • German: “Apameia am Orontes”
  • Greek: “Απάμεια (Ορόντου)”
  • Greek: “Απάμεια”
  • Hebrew: “אפאמיאה”
  • Hebrew: “אפאמיה”
  • Hungarian: “Apameia”
  • Indonesian: “Apamea, Suriah”
  • Indonesian: “Apamea”
  • Irish: “Apamea”
  • Italian: “Apamea allo Zeugma”
  • Italian: “Apamea sull’Oronte”
  • Italian: “Apamea”
  • Italian: “Apameia”
  • Japanese: “アパメア”
  • Japanese: “アパメイア”
  • Korean: “아파메아”
  • Latin: “Apamea”
  • Lithuanian: “Apamėja”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܘܦܡܝܐ”
  • Persian: “افامیا”
  • Polish: “Apamea nad Orontesem”
  • Polish: “Apamea Syryjska nad Orontesem”
  • Polish: “Apamea Syryjska”
  • Polish: “Apamea”
  • Portuguese: “Apamea (Síria)”
  • Portuguese: “Apamea”
  • Portuguese: “Apameia”
  • Russian: “Апамея на Оронте”
  • Russian: “Апамея Сирийская”
  • Russian: “Апамея”
  • Serbian: “Апамеја”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Apamea (Sirija)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Apameja”
  • Slovenian: “Afamia”
  • Slovenian: “Apamea”
  • Slovenian: “Apameja, Sirija”
  • Slovenian: “Apameja”
  • Spanish: “Apamea”
  • Swedish: “Apamea”
  • Turkish: “Afâmiya”
  • Turkish: “Efemiye”
  • Turkish: “Epemiye, Suriye”
  • Turkish: “Epemiye”
  • Turkish: “Famiya”
  • Ukrainian: “Апамея”
  • Urdu: “اپامیا، سوریہ”
  • Urdu: “اپامیا”

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