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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 189 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAODICEA , the name of at least eight cities, founded or renovated in the later Hellenic See also:

period. Most of them were founded by the, Seleucid See also:kings of See also:Syria. Seleucus, founder of the See also:dynasty, is said by See also:Appian to have named five cities after his See also:mother Laodice. Thus in the immense See also:realm of the Seleucidae from the See also:Aegean See also:Sea to the See also:borders of See also:India we find cities called Laodicea, as also See also:Seleucia (q.v.). So See also:long as See also:Greek See also:civilization held its ground, these were the commercial and social centres. The See also:chief are Laodicea ad Lycum (see below); Combusta on the borders of See also:Phrygia, See also:Lycaonia and See also:Pisidia; a third in See also:Pontus; a See also:fourth, ad See also:mare, on the See also:coast of Syria; a fifth, ad Libanum, beside the See also:Lebanon mountains; and three others in the far See also:east—See also:Media, See also:Persia and the See also:lower See also:Tigris valley. In the latter countries Greek civilization was See also:short-lived, and the last three cities disappeared; the other five continued See also:great throughout the Greek and See also:Roman period, and the second, third and fourth retain to the See also:present See also:day the See also:ancient name under the See also:pronunciation Ladik, Ladikiyeh or See also:Latakia (q.v.).

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