Researchers have been working to restore the ruins of Laodicea, an ancient Roman city,
in the modern-day southwestern province of Denizli. The goal is to make it a second Ephesus and an archaeology park”http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/
True History
Laodicea is situated on the long spur of a hill between the narrow valleys of the small rivers Asopus and Caprus, which discharge their waters into the Lycus. The town was originally called Diospolis, "City of Zeus", and afterwards Rhoas,[1] and Laodicea, the building of which is ascribed to Antiochus II Theos, in 261-253 BC, in honor of his wife Laodice, was probably founded on the site of the older town. It was approximately 17 km west of Colossae, and 10 km south of Hierapolis.[2] It was approximately 160 km east of Ephesus and, according to Strabo,[3] it was on a major road. It was in Phrygia, although some ancient authors place Laodicea in differing provincial territories – not surprising because the precise limits of these territories were both ill-defined and inconstant – e.g. Ptolemy[4] and Philostratus[5]) call it a town of Caria, while Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.) describes it as belonging to Lydia.
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