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APAMIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Apameia (Medania, Mutania). In Bithynia, was originally called Murleia
(Steph. B. s. v. Apameia), and was a colony from Colophon. (Plin. v. 32.) Philip
of Macedonia, the father of Perseus, took the town, as it appears, during the
war which he carried on against the king of Pergamus, and he gave the place to
Prusias, his ally, king of Bithynia. Prusias gave to Myrlea, which thus became
a Bithynian town, the name of his wife Apameia. The place was on the S. coast
of the Gulf of Cius, and NW. of Prusa. The Romans made Apameia a, colony, apparently
not earlier than the time of Augustus, or perhaps Julius Caesar; the epigraph
on the coins of the Roman period contains the title Julia. The coins of the period
before the Roman dominion have the epigraph Apameon Murleanon. Pliny (Ep. x. 56),
when governor of Bithynia, asked for the directions of Trajan, as to a claim made
by this colonia, not to have their accounts of receipts and expenditure examined
by the Roman governor. From a passage of Ulpian (Dig. 50. tit. 15. s. 11) we learn
the form Apamena: est in Bithynia colonia Apamena.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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