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Encyclopedia Britannica



LAODICEA

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 189 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
LAODICEA , the name of at least eight cities, founded or renovated in the later Hellenic period. Most of them were founded by the, Seleucid kings of Syria. Seleucus, founder of the dynasty, is said by Appian to have named five cities after his
mother
  Laodice. Thus in the immense
realm
  of the Seleucidae from the
Aegean
  Sea to the borders of India we find cities called Laodicea, as also Seleucia (q.v.). So
long
  as Greek civilization held its ground, these were the commercial and social centres. The
chief
  are Laodicea ad Lycum (see below); Combusta on the borders of
Phrygia
 , Lycaonia and Pisidia; a third in Pontus; a fourth, ad mare, on the
coast
  of Syria; a fifth, ad Libanum, beside the Lebanon mountains; and three others in the far eastMedia, Persia and the lower
Tigris
  valley. In the latter countries Greek civilization was short-lived, and the last three cities disappeared; the other five continued
great
  throughout the Greek and Roman period, and the second, third and fourth retain to the present day the ancient name under the pronunciation Ladik, Ladikiyeh or Latakia (q.v.).


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