Looking at Apamia أفاميا through Strabo سترابو
Strabos Map Strabo Strabo Strabo (Greek: Στράβων; 63/64 BC – ca. AD 24) was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in […]
Strabos Map Strabo Strabo Strabo (Greek: Στράβων; 63/64 BC – ca. AD 24) was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in […]
Antioch أنطاكيا, Seleucia Pieriaسلوقية بييريا, Apamea أفاميا, Laodicea in Syriaاللاذقية . After Alexander’s death in 323 BC, his generals divided up the territory he had conquered. Seleucus I Nicator سلوقس […]
In Syria […] the flower of the Hellenic conqueror was settled. […] For the Romans in Syria not much was left to be done as to the increase of urban […]
The Early Christian/Late Antique period is usually defined as beginning in roughly 250 — the later empire beginning with Diocletian, Roman emperor from 284 to 305), but the end of […]
No record event has occurred in the world but Damascus was in existence to receive the news of it. Go back as far as you will into the vague past, […]