About the Apamea, Qalaat al-Mudik, Syria:
About 55 kilometers northwest from Hama, Syria of the Orontes River on the right bank is located an ancient city which is the Apamea. The Ghab valley it overlooks and with classical columns lined Roman Street which exceptionally long for that is mostly notable.
The history of the Apamea:
One of the major Hellenistic city of Apamea before it became, known as Pharmake a small town it was, with the biblical Shepham to be identical it is thought.
In Syria for the Seleucids the first king and one of the general of the Alexander the Great, by the Seleucus Nicator in 300 BC was founded the Apamea. His Bactrian wife Apame after he named it. Soon flourished the new Hellenistic city which was beautiful, on the Tigris with Seleucia and on the Orontes with Antioch of the Seleucid Empire of the three mains cities becoming one. Half a million numbered its population.
In 64 BC part of the Roman Empire made Apamea the Pompey, and today of what remains that much was built in the Roman period. Including the Emperor Caracalla, Cleopatra, Septimus Severus many distinguished visitors received Apamea as a crossroads of Eastern.
In the 1st century AD of the Jewish Revolt on the outbreak, in their midst who lived the Jews spared the inhabitants of Apamea, and into captivity led or to be murdered would not allow them. A center of theology and philosophy became the Apamea in the Christian era, of Monophysitism (only one nature has that Christ the doctrine, is divine which essentially) especially.
From the Persians recovered it after the Byzantines in the 6th century on Apamea was done of building work the last bit. But the 7th century Islamic conquest during the time it was conquered easily and under Arab rule to decline continued. As an outpost in Aleppo by the Hamdanids was used the fortified acropolis of ancient time.
In 1106 from the Fatimids took Apamea the Trancred and until 1149 kept it the Crusaders as Femia who called it, Nur Al Din when reconquered the Apamea. By a large earthquake was devastated the Apamea in 1157. This turbulent history incredibly despite, of Apamea on the ancient Roman Street remain in place of columns a remarkable number.
At the Apamea what to see:
From the Roman and Byzantine periods date to Apamea by the modern visitors enjoyed the most excavated ruins. For the high walls and with twisted fluting surrounded by columns the main thoroughfare especially is distinguished the Apamea. To the Romans as the Cardo Maximus known the street, width is 87 meters and length is 1.85 kilometers, from north to south running directly. With religious buildings and civic on both sides it was lined.
With remains of Byzantine and Roman residences there is a site to Khan Sheikhoun that leads the road. The ruin of a classical theater lies on the opposite direction, and on the pilgrimage route used in a 16th century Turkish caravanserai housed on a museum further.
Collected from Apamea beautiful mosaics contains the museum, one of the Sages and Socrates which includes. Some stelae of funerary, with Latin inscriptions a sarcophagus, and some clay table of 15,000 cuneiform there are also.
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