Apamea Myrlea

Apamea in Bithynia is an ancient town on the Marmara Sea, 1 km southeast of present-day Mudanya (Turkey).

The place is a colony of Colophon, and was originally called Brylleion, shortly after 330 BC only Myrleia. Since 433/2 BC, he is busy as a member of the Delian League; End of the 4th century BC, it is under the rule of Mithridates II of Cius; in the 3rd century BC, he is at times a member of the Koinon of Athena Ilias. 202 BC it was conquered by Philip V, destroyed and delivered to the king of Bithynia Prusias I; of Nicomedes II, he founded in honor of his mother Apame as Apamea new. 72 BC the city was conquered in the course of the 3rd Mithridatic War of Triarius; well as Colonia Iulia Concordia under Caesar ( Augusta) Apamea newly established. In looted Goteneinfall of 257/8 AD; coinage ends 260 AD After the founding of Constantinople Opel 324 cities losing its environment, including Apamea, rapidly in importance. In late antiquity and the Byzantine period, the seat of an archbishop.

To the territory of the city today's villages Paladari, Burgaz, Kurşunlu and Triglia included ( Zeytinbagi ).

In the 19th century remains of a port facility and a theater were still there, but are now completely disappeared due to stone robbery.