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Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Al Madīnah as Siyāḩīyah
  • geo:35.58762,35.736946
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -1200~ / unknown

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • visible

Identifiers:

Annotations

300 BC the Phoenicians Ramitha was re-founded by Seleucus I and named Laodicea after his mother, Laodice.

Laodicaea was the capital of Eastern Roman province from 528 AD until 637 AD.

Strabo:  ...Laodiceia, situated on the sea. It is a city most beautifully built, has a good harbour, and has territory which, besides its other good crops, abounds in wine. Now this city furnishes the most of the wine to the Alexandreians, since the whole of the mountain that lies above the city and is possessed by it is covered with vines almost as far as the summits. And while the summits are at a considerable distance from Laodiceia, sloping up gently and gradually from it, they tower above Apameia, extending up to a perpendicular height. Laodiceia was afflicted in no moderate degree by Dolabella, when he fled to it for refuge, was besieged in it by Cassius till death, and destroyed, along with himself, many parts of the city1.

See:

  1. http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Ramitha_Latakia.html
  2. Strabo Geographica Geography Book XVI .9

References

  1. ↑ Strabo LCL


Relevant museums

Aleppo, National Museum

Large collection of Bronze Age (a/o Ebla, Mari, Ugarit), Iron Age (Arslan Tash), Hellenistic, and Roman finds.

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Ras Ibn Hani

Ras Ibn Hani is a small cape located 8 kilometers north of Latakia, Syria on the Mediterranean Sea. It is an important archaeological site as it was occupied almost continuously from the late Bronze Age until Byzantine times.

Ras ibn Hani - White Harbour

Bronze Age settlement. Greek name White Harbour.

Mahadu, Port of Ugarit (4 km)

Ancient Ma`Hadu modern Minet el Beida. Leukos Limen.


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