Apamea/Kelainai/Kibotos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss, S. Mitchell
Creators: C. Foss, S. Mitchell
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, Ryan Horne
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 29, 2026 01:57 PM
—
History
Apamea/Kelainai/Kibotos (modern Dinar) was an ancient settlement of Phrygia located at a road junction linking Ionia to the east. In 333 BC Alexander the Great installed his general Antigonos as satrap of Phrygia.
Show place in Google Earth.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/638751
38.07007556, 30.1716213761
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of archaeological area at Dinar, Turkey (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- DARE Location (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
-
- Apamea (330 BC - AD 640)
- Apamea ciboton (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Κελαιναί (Kelainai: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 640)
- Kibotos (30 BC - AD 300)
- None
-
None
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- See Also:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 65 D1 Apamea/Kelainai/Kibotos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Dinar
C. Foss, S. Mitchell, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, and Ryan Horne, 'Apamea/Kelainai/Kibotos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/638751> [accessed: 13 February 2026]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/638751 |title=Places: 638751 (Apamea/Kelainai/Kibotos) |author=Foss, C., S. Mitchell |accessdate=February 13, 2026 8:15 am |publisher=Pleiades}}