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To distinguish this city from the many others called Apamea,<ref name=EB1911>[http://eb.tbicl.org/apamea/ 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica]</ref><ref name=Smith/><ref>See also the disambiguation page [[Apamea (disambiguation)|Apamea]]</ref> the name Apamea Myrlea used here adds to the name (Apamea) it was given when rebuilt as an important city the name (Myrlea) it previously bore as a smaller town.<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry=apamea Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, ''A Latin Dictionary'', entry "Ăpămēa"]</ref> It was also referred to as Apamea Myrlēon (Apamea of Myrlea).<ref>[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002024900400;view=1up;seq=93 William Smith, ''A Classical Dictionary'', p. 83]</ref> |
To distinguish this city from the many others called Apamea,<ref name=EB1911>[http://eb.tbicl.org/apamea/ 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica] {{wayback|url=http://eb.tbicl.org/apamea/ |date=20141218193536 }}</ref><ref name=Smith/><ref>See also the disambiguation page [[Apamea (disambiguation)|Apamea]]</ref> the name Apamea Myrlea used here adds to the name (Apamea) it was given when rebuilt as an important city the name (Myrlea) it previously bore as a smaller town.<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry=apamea Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, ''A Latin Dictionary'', entry "Ăpămēa"]</ref> It was also referred to as Apamea Myrlēon (Apamea of Myrlea).<ref>[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002024900400;view=1up;seq=93 William Smith, ''A Classical Dictionary'', p. 83]</ref> |
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==History== |
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Apamea Myrlea (/ˌæpəˈmiːə mərˈliːə/; Ancient Greek: Απάμεια Μύρλεια) was an ancient city on the Sea of Marmara, in Bithynia, Anatolia; its ruins are a few kilometers south of Mudanya, Bursa Province in the Marmara Region of Turkey.
Name
To distinguish this city from the many others called Apamea,[1][2][3] the name Apamea Myrlea used here adds to the name (Apamea) it was given when rebuilt as an important city the name (Myrlea) it previously bore as a smaller town.[4] It was also referred to as Apamea Myrlēon (Apamea of Myrlea).[5]
History
The town was founded as a colony of the Colophonians and was called Μύρλεια (Myrleia or Myrlea). Philip V of Macedon took the town, as it appears, during his war against the king of Pergamon, and gave it to his ally, King Prusias I of Bithynia, who fortified and enlarged it – indeed almost rebuilt it[6] – around 202 BC, renaming it Ἀπάμεια (transcribed as Apameia, Apamea, or Apamia), after his wife, Apama III.[2]
The place was on the south coast of the Gulf of Erdek, and northwest of Bursa, then called Prusa, for which it served as a port.[1]
The Romans made Apamea a colonia, apparently in the time of Augustus, or perhaps Julius Caesar, in view of the adjective "Iulia" that appear on its coins under Roman rule.[2] Its earlier coins were stamped Ἀπαμέων Μυρλεάνων, but in Roman times they bore the label C.I.C.A. (= Colonia Iulia Concordia Apamea).[7]
When Pliny the Younger was governor of Bithynia, he consulted Trajan about a claim by the colonia not to have its accounts of receipts and expenditures examined by the Roman governor.[2]
A passage of Ulpian shows use of the adjectival form of the name was Apamenus: "Apamena: est in Bithynia colonia Apamena.[2]
Bishopric
This Apamea in the Roman province of Bithynia became the seat of a Christian bishop in the 4th century and was at first a suffragan of Nicaea, but became an autocephalous archdiocese some time before the Fourth Council of Constantinople (Roman Catholic) in 869, at which its archbishop Paulus took part.[8][9]
No longer a residential bishopric, Apamea in Bithynia is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[10]
References
- ^ a b 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Template:Wayback
- ^ a b c d e "Apameia" in William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)
- ^ See also the disambiguation page Apamea
- ^ Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, entry "Ăpămēa"
- ^ William Smith, A Classical Dictionary, p. 83
- ^ William Smith, A Classical Dictionary, p. 581
- ^ Asia Minor Coins - ancient coins of Apamea
- ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 655-658
- ^ Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica, Vol. 2, p. 235
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 834
Further reading
- Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), p. 52.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Apameia