Apamea

Is located on the right bank of the Orontes, it overlooks the Ghab plain It was built by Selucos Nikator, the first king of the Seleucids in Syria in 300 B.C. He named it after his wife, Apamea. As an eastern crossroads, it received many distinguished visitors: Cleopatra, Septimus Severus and the Emperor Caracalla. In the Christian era, Apamea became a centre of philosophy and thought, especially of Monophisitism .

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