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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ro1974, post: 3229384, member: 73358&quot;]The country about Apamea has been shaken by earthquakes, one of which is recorded as having happened in the time of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius" rel="nofollow">Claudius</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus" rel="nofollow">Tacit.</a> <i>Ann. </i> xii. 58); and on this occasion the payment of taxes to the Romans was remitted for five years. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_of_Damascus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_of_Damascus" rel="nofollow">Nicolaus of Damascus</a> (<i>Athen. </i> p. 332) records a violent earthquake at Apamea at a previous date, during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridatic_Wars" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridatic_Wars" rel="nofollow">Mithridatic Wars</a>: lakes appeared where none were before, and rivers and springs; and many which existed before disappeared. Strabo (p. 579) speaks of this great catastrophe, and of other convulsions at an earlier period.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kibotos_1096.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kibotos_1096.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Kibotos_1096.jpg/220px-Kibotos_1096.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Kibitos&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Kibitos&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow">Battle of Kibitos</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century" rel="nofollow">13C</a> manuscript</p><p>Apamea continued to be a prosperous town under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" rel="nofollow">Roman Empire</a>. Its decline dates from the local disorganization of the empire in the 3rd century; and though a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese" rel="nofollow">bishopric</a>, it was not an important military or commercial center in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" rel="nofollow">Byzantine</a> times. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_peoples" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_peoples" rel="nofollow">Turks</a> took it first in 1080, and from the late 13th century onwards it was always in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim" rel="nofollow">Muslim</a> hands. For a long period it was one of the greatest cities of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Minor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Minor" rel="nofollow">Asia Minor</a>, commanding the Maeander road; but when the trade routes were diverted to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople" rel="nofollow">Constantinople</a> it rapidly declined, and its ruin was completed by an earthquake.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apamea_(Phrygia)#cite_note-EB1911-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apamea_(Phrygia)#cite_note-EB1911-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>recorded as having happened in the time of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius" rel="nofollow">Claudius/ my rearch is </a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius" rel="nofollow">&nbsp;it happen in claudius time Earthqauke</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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