Apamea
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.
- Tourist attraction
- …lies at an elevation of around 260 metres (840 feet)
- Description: ancient city in Al-Suqaylabiyah, Syria
- Also known as“Afāmiyā”“Afāmiyah”“Apamea (Samian Ware Discovery Site)”“Apamea, Syria”“Apamean, Al-Suqaylabiyah”“Apameia”“Apameia (zaniklé město)”“Apameia ad Orontes”“Apameia in Syria”“Khirbah Bīzanţīyah Afāmiyā”“Mint of Apameia in Syria”“Ruines d’Aramée”“آفاميا”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Qalaat al-Madiq.
Apamea
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Latitude
35.4207° or 35° 25′ 14″ north
Longitude
36.4019° or 36° 24′ 7″ east
Open location code
8G7RCCC2+7P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruins
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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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: “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 de Síria”
- Catalan: “Apamea”
- 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: “Apamée”
- French: “Qal’at al-Madhiq”
- French: “Ruines d‘ Apamée”
- Galician: “Apamea”
- Georgian: “აპემეა”
- German: “Apamea am Orontes”
- German: “Apamea”
- German: “Apameia (zaniklé město)”
- German: “Apameia am Orontes”
- Greek: “Απάμεια (Ορόντου)”
- Greek: “Απάμεια”
- Hebrew: “אפאמיאה”
- Hebrew: “אפאמיה”
- Hindi: “अपामेया”
- 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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