Apamea

Apamea or Apameia is the name of several Hellenistic cities in western Asia, after Apama, the wife of Seleucus I Nicator:

• Apamea (Babylonia), on the Tigris near the Euphrates, precise location unknown, now in Iraq
• Apamea (Euphrates), in Osroene, opposite Zeugma on the Euphrates, now flooded by the Birecik Dam, Turkey
• Apamea (Media), in Media, near Laodicea (Nahavand, Iran), precise location unknown
• Apamea (Phrygia), formerly Kibotos, commercial center of Phrygia, near Celaenae, now at Dinar, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey
• Apamea (Sittacene), on the Tigris, precise location unknown, now in Iraq
• Apamea (Syria), on the Orontes River, northwest of Hama, Syria
• Apamea Myrlea, formerly Myrlea and Brylleion, in Bithynia, on the Sea of Marmara; currently near Mudanya, Bursa Province, Turkey
• Apamea Ragiana, south of the Caspian Gates in Parthia (later Media); now in Iran

Apamea may also refer to:

• Apamea (moth genus)

See also

• Apama (disambiguation)