Apamea or Apameia (
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: ) is an ancient
Hellenistic
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city described by
Pliny (vi. 31) in
Sittacene, which was surrounded by the
Tigris
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. Its precise current location is not known.
It received the name of Apamea from the mother of
Antiochus I Soter
Antiochus I Soter ( grc-gre, Ἀντίοχος Σωτήρ, ''Antíochos Sōtér''; "Antiochus the Saviour"; c. 324/32 June 261 BC) was a Greek king of the Seleucid Empire. Antiochus succeeded his father Seleucus I Nicator in 281 BC and reigned d ...
, the first of the
Seleucids
The Seleucid Empire (; grc, Βασιλεία τῶν Σελευκιδῶν, ''Basileía tōn Seleukidōn'') was a Greek state in West Asia that existed during the Hellenistic period from 312 BC to 63 BC. The Seleucid Empire was founded by the M ...
;
Strabo asserts 261 BCE for its foundation. (Pliny adds: ''haec dividitur Archoo'', as if a stream flowed through the town).
D'Anville (''L'Euphrate et le Tigre'') supposes that Apamea was at the point where the
Dijeil, now dry, branched off from the Tigris. D'Anville places the bifurcation near
Samarrah, and there he puts Apamea. But Lynch (London Geog. Journal, vol. ix. p. 473) shows that the Dijeil branched off near
Jibbarah, a little north of 34° North latitude. He supposes that the Dijeil once swept the end of the
Median Wall and flowed between it and Jibbarah. Somewhere, then, about this place Apamea may have been, for this point of the bifurcation of the Tigris is one degree of latitude north of
Seleucia, and if the course of the river is measured, it will probably be not far from the distance which Pliny gives (cxxv. M. P.).
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Sittacene
Seleucid colonies
261 BC
260s BC establishments
Former populated places in Iraq