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Surroundings:

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Location:

  • Türkiye, Keskince
  • geo:37.085468,37.87674
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -3xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=26739

Annotations

Epiphaneia ad Euphratem according Pliny the Elder Cingilla Commagenen finit, Imeneorum civitas incipit. oppida adluuntur Epiphania et Antiochia, quae Ad Euphraten vocantur, item Zeugma (At Cingilla the territory of Commagene ends and state of the Imenei begins. The towns washed by the river are Epiphania and Antioch (called Antioch on the Euphrates), and also Zeugma [.. ] Apamea on the opposite bank being joined to it by a bridge constructed by Seleucus, the founder of both towns. Probably Antiochos IV Epiphanes.

Sources:

  1. Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa, University of California Pres 2006, pp. 169-170
  2. Pliny the Elder: the Natural History V. 86

Nearby

Apamea in Osroene (2 km)

Apameia - Hellenistic and Roman city curently beneath the surface of the water of Birecik Dam. Apamea (Euphrates)

Circular Temple Zeugma (2 km)

Circular Temple, partially flooded

Zeugma, House of the Maenads (3 km)

The riverside villa at Zeugma.


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