Apamea Myrlea or Apamea Myrleon – Greek: Απάμεια Μυρλεανός, also transliterated as Apameia Myrleanos; formerly Brylleion and Myrlea (Greek: Μύρλεια, also transliterated as Murleia or Myrleia); Latin: Colonia Iulia Concordia; and also recorded as Apamena – was an ancient city on the Sea of Marmara, in Bithynia, Anatolia; the ruins are now found a few km south of Mudanya (Medania, Mutania), Bursa Province in the Asian part of Turkey. Founded by the Colophonians (Pliny v. 32.), in antiquity Apamea was the port of Brusa (now, Bursa). Philip V of Macedon took the town, as it appears, during the war which he carried on against the king of Pergamon, and he gave the place to King Prusias I of Bithynia, his ally. Prusias, who rebuilt the city around 202 BC, renamed the city after his wife, Apama. The place was on the south coast of the Gulf of Cius, and northwest of Brusa. The Romans made Apamea a colony, apparently not earlier than the time of Augustus, or perhaps Julius Caesar, given the name Colonia Iulia Concordia. Pliny the Younger (Ep. x. 56), when governor of Bithynia, asked for the directions of Trajan, as to a claim made by the colonia, not to have their accounts of receipts and expenditures 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. [p. 153] Apamea minted its own coins in antiquity: coins of the period before the Roman dominion have the epigraph Apameôn Murleanôn; the epigraph on the coins of the Roman period contains the title Julia. Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one script into another script. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Map of the Sea of Marmara Satellite view of the Sea of Marmara The Sea of Marmara (Turkish: Marmara Denizi, Modern Greek: Θάλασσα του Μαρμαρά or Προποντίδα) (also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea) is an inland sea that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus separating the... Bithynia was an ancient region, kinhdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine (today Black Sea). ... Asia Minor lies east of the Bosporus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... MUDANYA(ancient Apamea Myrlea), a town of Turkey, on the south coast of the Sea of Marmora. ... shows the Location of the Bursa Province Bursa is a province in western Turkey, along the Sea of Marmara. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... Colophon (Greek Κολοφών; see also list of traditional Greek place names) was a titular see of Asia Minor. ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ... Brusa has different meanings: Brusa is an old name of the city Bursa in northwestern Turkey. ... Bursa (formerly known as Brusa, Greek Prusa, Προύσσα) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of Bursa Province. ... Coin of Philip V. The Greek inscription reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ ([coin] of King Philip). ... The Kingdom of Pergamon (colored olive) shown at its greatest extent in 188 BC. Pergamon or Pergamum (Greek: Πέργαμος, modern day Bergama in Turkey, ) was an ancient Greek city, in Mysia, northwestern Anatolia, 16 miles from the Aegean Sea, located on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus... Prusias I Chlorus (c. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 3rd century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC - 200s BC - 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC Years: 207 BC 206 BC 205 BC 204 BC 203 BC - 202 BC - 201 BC 200 BC 199 BC 198 BC 197 BC Events October... Octavian, widely known as Augustus, founder of the Roman empire The Roman Empire was a phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by an autocratic form of government. ... Augustus (Latin: IMPERATOR CAESAR DIVI FILIVS AVGVSTVS[1]; September 23, 63 BC – August 19, AD 14), known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (in English Octavian) for the period of his life prior to 27 BC, was the first and among the most important of the Roman Emperors. ... Gaius Julius Caesar (IPA: ;[1]), July 12, 100 BC – March 15, 44 BC) was a Roman military and political leader. ... Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (63-ca. ... Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus (September 18, 53 – August 9, 117), Roman Emperor (98-117), commonly called Trajan, was the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Roman Empire. ... Domitius Ulpianus, Anglicized as Ulpian, (died 228) was a Roman jurist of Tyrian ancestry. ...

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• Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 069103169X), p. 52.
• Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, "Apameia", London, (1854)
• William Smith, Classical Dictionary, s.v. "Apamea", "Myrlea"
• Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Apameia

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External links

• Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer, "Apamea"

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1857). The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, published in 1854, was the last a series of classical dictionaries edited by the english scholar William Smith (1813–1893), which included as sister works the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities and the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. ... Sir William Smith (1813 - 1893), English lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents. ...