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    Laodicea on the Lycus (Greek: Λαοδίκεια πρὸς τοῦ Λύκου Laodikeia pros tou Lykou; Latin: Laodicea ad Lycum, also transliterated as Laodiceia or Laodikeia)...
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  • Laodicea (/ˌleɪ.ədɪˈsiːə/) may refer to: Laodicea on the Lycus, in Phrygia Laodicea Pontica, in the Pontus Laodicea Combusta, in Pisidia Laodicea ad Libanum...
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  • of Laodicea on the Lycus. The current Turkish province of Denizli was named the sanjak (sub-province) of Lâdik till the early years of the Republic of...
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    (Yenicekent), and Çardak districts. The ancient ruined city of Hierapolis, as well as ruins of the city of Laodicea on the Lycus, the ancient metropolis of Phrygia...
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    solidifying his rule in Syria. The Galatians looted Cyzikus, Ilion, Didyma, Priene, Thyatira and Laodicea on the Lycus, while the citizens of Erythras paid...
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    used by the citizens of the nearby town of Laodicea, would later form the centre of Hierapolis. Hierapolis was founded as a thermal spa early in the 2nd century BC...
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    hundred years, after excavations at Laodicea on the Lycus revealed a 900-year-old relief of the cities symbol. In 2013 the largest glass sculpture in Turkey...
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    today. [Byzantium] The Circus | Constantinople at circusmaximus.us. [Laodicea on the Lycus] Wikimapia location: Laodicea on the Lycus Roman stadium or circus...
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  • The Laodicean Church was a Christian community established in the ancient city of Laodicea (on the river Lycus, in the Roman province of Asia, and one...
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  • Lulianos and Paphos (category Jews and Judaism in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)
    who lived in Laodicea on the Lycus in Anatolia, contemporaries with Joshua ben Hananiah, and who suffered martyrdom at the hands of the Roman legate....
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  • Diospolis in above Lydda The first known name of Laodicea on the Lycus in Phrygia, Anatolia Diospolis Magna (Great Zeus-City), the Greco-Roman name of Pharaonic...
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    Ploutonion at Hierapolis (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    published reports on their excavations throughout the decade. Following the studies carried out on site in 1998, a geologist of the Italian National Research...
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    solidifying his rule in Syria. The Galatians looted Cyzikus, Ilion, Didyma, Priene, Thyatira and Laodicea on the Lycus, while the citizens of Erythras paid...
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    family of Roman consular rank. He was the grandson of Polemon II of Pontus. He was born in Laodicea on the Lycus in Phrygia (modern Turkey), however, he...
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    Phrygia (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    the Lycus. Within its boundaries lie the towns of Laodicea on the Lycus and Hierapolis. According to ancient tradition among Greek historians, the Phrygians...
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    Lycia et Pamphylia (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    Anatolia. The most important one was the road from Attalea (Antalya) to Apamea. In Lycia the road from Patara towards Laodicea on the Lycus followed the coast...
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    Cilicia (Roman province) (category Articles missing coordinates without coordinates on Wikidata)
    the Forum Isauricum, possibly at Philornelium; the Forum Pamphylium, the place of which is unknown; the Forum Cibyraticum, at Laodicea on the Lycus;...
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  • Asopus (category Set index articles on Greek mythology)
    in Phrygia which joins the River Lycus near Laodicea on the Lycus. As mythological entities, the Boeotian river Asopus and the Phliasian river Asopus...
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  • cities in the ancient world. In this list, a city is defined as a single population center. These were often referred to as poleis in the ancient world...
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    Antioch on the Orontes (/ˈænti.ɒk/; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, romanized: Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou, pronounced [anti.ó.kʰeː.a]) was a Hellenistic...
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    15 km (9.3 mi) southeast of Laodicea on the road through the Lycus Valley near the Lycus River at the foot of Mt. Cadmus, the highest mountain in Turkey's...
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    Greece on the coast of Ionia, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site...
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    The Diocese of Laodicea in Phrygia, is an important Titular Christian Diocese, centered on the biblical city of Laodicea on the Lycus in modern Turkey...
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    Byzantium (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    well as the passage from the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea. On May 29, 1453, the city was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, and again became the capital...
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    Magnesia or Magnesia on the Maeander (Ancient Greek: Μαγνησία ἡ πρὸς Μαιάνδρῳ or Μαγνησία ἡ ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ; Latin: Magnesia ad Maeandrum) was an ancient...
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  • Province, the ancient Laodicea Pontica Ladik Lake, lake in Samsun Province Denizli Ladik, usually called just Denizli, near Laodicea on the Lycus Beylik...
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    added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1986. The earliest traces of settlement on the site are from the sixth millennium BC during the Chalcolithic...
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    Troy (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    As a result, the archeological site that has been left, is divided into nine layers, each corresponding to a city built on the ruins of the previous. Archaeologists...
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    stood on the border between Lydia and Mysia. During the Roman era, (1st century AD), it was famous for its dyeing facilities and was a center of the purple...
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  • Petzeas (category Byzantine people of the Byzantine–Seljuk wars)
    until 1105/6, when he was sent to replace Kantakouzenos as the governor of Laodicea on the Lycus. Nothing further is known of him. Skoulatos 1980, p. 262...
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