Treaty of Apamea

The Peace of Apamea was a in the small town of Apamea Asian Kibotos 188 BC closed peace between the Roman Republic and the Seleucid Empire.

190 The peace was the battle of Magnesia BC ahead, in which the Romans under the generals Scipio, later called Scipio asiaticus, and Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus with the allied troops from Pergamon Seleucid king Antiochus III over the. won.

In this peace, King Antiochus undertook III. , 12,000 talents to pay 12 annual installments to the Romans, as well as deliver the warships to 10. The small Asian possessions fell to the Roman allies in Asia, Rhodes and Pergamon, which were constructed as Asian central states to opponents of the Seleucid Empire.

The Peace of Apamea meant the rise of Rome to determining power in the eastern Mediterranean. The terms of the treaty are narrated by Polybius (Polybius, 21, 42, 1-27 ) and in Livy ( Livy 38, 38).