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Laodicea

Background

Laodicea (Greek: Λαοδίκεια); also transliterated as Laodikeia or Laodiceia was a Hellenistic city in Mesopotamia. Pliny (vi. 30) places Laodicea along with Seleucia and Artemita. Laodicea's precise location is unknown, but it is in modern-day Iraq.

Sources

Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, "Laodiceia", London, (1854)