Laodicea

Laodicea

Laodicea ( _el. Λαοδίκεια), also transliterated as Laodiceia or Laodikeia was the name for at least seven Hellenistic cities, which were named for one of the several queens named Laodice in the Seleucid dynasty. The Greeks distinguished such cities by nicknames usually based on geography.

They include:
*Laodicea in Syria, also "Laodicea ad Mare" (Laodicea on the Sea), now Latakia, Syria
*Laodicea on the Lycus, the Laodicea of the Bible, also "Diospolis", "Rhoas" and "Claudiolaodicea", in Phrygia (also Caria and Lydia), currently near Eskihisar, Denizli Province, Turkey
**Laodicean Church
*Laodicea in Media, also "Laodicea in Persis" and "Antiochia" now the tell of Nahavand, Iran
*Laodicea Combusta, also "Laodicea Catacecaumene", in Phrygia Parorea, later in Lycaonia
*Laodicea ad Libanum, on the Orontes in Coele-Syria, now 25 km southwest of Homs, Syria
*Laodicea, in Arcadia, Greece
*Laodicea Pontica, in Pontus
*Laodicea, in Mesopotamia, precise location not known, in Iraq
*Laodicea in Phoenicia, also "Laodicea in Canaan" and "Berytus", now Beirut, Lebanon

External links

* [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/gazetteer/0198.html Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer, "Laodicea"]


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