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Apamea, columns with twisted fluting — Arian Zwegers

Apamea, columns with twisted fluting Apamea, on the right bank of the Orontes River, was a treasure city and stud-depot of the Seleucid kings, and was the capital of Apamene. Its site is found about 55 km to the northwest of Hama, Syria, overlooking the Ghab valley. Previously known as Pharmake, it was fortified and enlarged by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC, who so named it after his Bactrian wife, Apama. The fortress was placed upon a hill; the windings of the Orontes, with the lake and marshes, gave it a peninsular form, whence its other name of Cherronêsos. Seleucus (c. 358 BC – 281 BC) had his commissariat there, 500 elephants, with 30,000 mares, and 300 stallions. The pretender, Diodotus Tryphon, made Apamea the basis of his operations. Located at a strategic crossroads for Eastern commerce, the city flourished to the extent that its population eventually numbered half a million. It was one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis. The city boasted one of the largest theatres in the Roman world, and a monumental colonnade. Josephus relates that Pompey marching south from his winter quarters, probably at or near Antioch, razed the fortress of Apamea in 64 BC whence the city was annexed to the Roman Republic. In the revolt of Syria under Q. Caecilius Bassus, it held out against Julius Caesar for three years till the arrival of Cassius, 46 BC. Remarkably, we have the figure of 117,000 citizens of Apamea early in the 1st century. On the outbreak of the Jewish War (66–73 CE), the inhabitants of Apamea spared the Jews who lived in their midst, and would not suffer them to be murdered or led into captivity. Destroyed by Chosroes I in the 6th century, it was partially rebuilt and known in Arabic as Famia or Fâmieh, and destroyed by an earthquake in 1152. In the Crusades it was still a flourishing and important place and was occupied by Tancred. The acropolis hill is now occupied by the ruins called Kalat el-Mudik (Kŭlat el-Mudîk). The ruins of a highly ornamental character, and of an enormous extent, are still standing, the remains, probably, of the temples of which Sozomen speaks; part of the town is enclosed in an ancient castle situated on a hill; the remainder is to be found in the plain. In the adjacent lake are the celebrated black fish, the source of much wealth. (source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apamea,_Syria" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apamea,_Syria</a>)
Roman Theatre at Apamea — туристическая достопримечательность, одна из Амфитеатры в городе Kalaat Moudik, Сирия. Он расположен: 334 км от Халеб, 570 км от Бейрут, 640 км от Дамаск. Читать далее
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