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Hellenistic city in Media
Apamea
or
Apameia
(
Greek
:
Απ?μεια
) was a
Hellenistic
city in
Media
founded by
Seleucus I Nicator
, near
Laodicea
(now
Nahavand
,
Iran
) and
Heraclea
. (
Strabo
xi. p. 524 ;
Stephanus of Byzantium
"Laodikeia"). Apamea's precise location is not known, but it was located near Nahavand.Apamea is old Phrygien Kelainai in Afyonkarahisar Province Turkey.(Near Leodekia-Denizli Province)
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