Apamea (Phrygia): Difference between revisions

'''Apamea Cibotus''', '''Apamea ad Maeandrum''' (on the [[Maeander]]), '''Apamea''' or '''Apameia''' ({{lang-grc|Ἀπάμεια|Apámeia}}, {{lang-grc| κιβωτός|kibōtós}}) was an ancient city in [[Anatolia]] founded in the 3rd century BC by [[Antiochus I Soter]], who named it after his mother [[Apama]]. It was in Hellenistic [[Phrygia]],<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/858373/Apamea-Cibotus Encyclopædia Britannica, "Apamea Cibotus"]</ref> but became part of the [[Roman province]] of [[Pisidia]].<ref name=Lequien/><ref>Pius Bonifacius Gams, [http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=65154&dirids=1 ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae''], Leipzig 1931, p.&nbsp;451</ref> It was near, but on lower ground than, [[Celaenae]] (Kelainai).