Hama
أفاميا، المعروفة بهذا الاسم بالعربية، أسسها سلوقس الأول نحو عام 300 قبل الميلاد، وسُمّيت نسبةً إلى زوجته أباما. وأصبحت إحدى المدن الكبرى في سوريا الرومانية…
Apamea, Afamiya in Arabic, was founded around 300 BC by Seleucus I and named after his wife Apama. It became one of the great cities of Roman and Byzantine Syria, and its main colonnaded street, nearly two kilometres long, is one of the longest in the ancient world. The Muslims took the city in 17 AH (638), and it later declined after earthquakes. It lies on a plateau above the Orontes valley beside the castle of Qal'at al-Mudiq and its Ottoman khan.