Apamea (Phrygia)

Apamea Kibotos ( Απάμεια Κιβωτός ) is an ancient city in Phrygia, situated at the sources of rivers meander and Marsyas, today Dinar ( Turkey).

Antiochus I founded the city on the site of an older city Kelainai re -naming it after his mother Apame in Apamea. 188 BC Here the peace of Apamea between the Roman Republic and the Seleucid Empire was closed. In the Roman Empire Apamea was the largest market town of Ephesus in Asia Minor and chief town of a conventus; in late antiquity it was a bishopric. Coins of the city show the Noah's ark. Very few archaeological remains have been preserved.