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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 25290597, member: 128351&quot;]The city is called <i>Julia Laodicea Severa Metropolis</i>, but no mention of colonia. Metropolis means provincial capital. Antioch, the capital of the Seleucid kingdom, and later of Roman Syria, had been punished by Septimius Severus for her supporting of Pescennius Niger. It was deprived of its city-status and annexed to Laodicea, declared the new metropolis (capital) of &quot;Syria Coele&quot;, a new province which was the northern half of the former province of Syria. But some time later Septimius Severus restored Antioch as a city and metropolis of Syria Coele. Officially it was at Caracalla&#039;s request.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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