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Afāmiyā (deserted settlement) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 35 24 46 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 35.4136 decimal degrees |
Long: 036 23 31 E degrees minutes |
Long: 36.3924 decimal degrees |
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Note: Ancient site located near modern Qal‘at el Madhiq. Was one of 4 great cities founded in N Syria by Seleucus I Nicator (301-281 BCE); a citadel of the Seleucid kings; was the capital of Apamene. The fortress was destroyed by Pompey in 1st cen. CE, when the city was re-established under the name Claudia Apamea; destroyed in Moslem conquest 7th cen. |
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Afāmiyā (preferred,C,V)
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Apamea (C,V,S)
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Apameia (C,V,Ancient Greek (transliterated),U)
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Afamia (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U)
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Afāmiyah (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U)
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افاميا (C,V,Arabic,U)
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Ἀπάμεια (C,V,Greek,U)
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Apamea on the Orontes (C,O)
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Apamea ad Orontem (C,V)
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Claudia Apamea (C,V)
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Famieh (C,V)
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Pharnake (C,V)
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Pella (C,V)
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Apamea Syriae (C,V)
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Ruines d’ Aramée (C,V)
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Khirbah Bīzanţīyah Afāmiyā (C,V)
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خربة بيزنطية افاميا (C,V,Arabic,U)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Ḩamāh (governorate) (P) |
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Afāmiyā (deserted settlement) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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deserted settlement (preferred, C) |
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ruins (C) |
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inhabited place (H) |
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founded ca. 300 BC |
fortified settlement (H) |
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Seleucid (H) |
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Related geographic places: |
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near/adjacent to .... |
Qal‘at al Maḑīq .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Asia, Syria, Ḩamāh) [7594293] |
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