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Colossae was located in Phrygia, in Asia Minor. [2] It was located 15 km (9.3 mi) southeast of Laodicea on the road through the Lycus Valley near the Lycus River at the foot of Mt. Cadmus, the highest mountain in Turkey's western Aegean Region, and between the cities Sardeis and Celaenae, and southeast of the ancient city of Hierapolis.
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. It lay on a major trade route [4] and in its neighbourhood were many important ancient cities; it was 17 km west of Colossae, 10 km south of Hierapolis. [5] and 160 km east of Ephesus.
The Christian community in Laodicea seems to have been closely connected with that of nearby Colossae (also in the Lycus valley, 10 miles (16 km) distant). [1] [2] Laodicea is mentioned four times in the New Testament's epistle to the Colossians (Col. 2:1; 4:13,15,16).
Lycus or Lykos (Ancient Greek: Λύκος; Turkish: Çürüksu) was the name of a river in ancient Phrygia. It is a tributary of the Maeander and joins it a few kilometers south of Tripolis . It had its sources in the eastern parts of Mount Cadmus ( Strabo xii. p. 578), not far from those of the Meander itself, and it flowed westerly towards ...
Hierapolis is located on terrace three hundred feet above the Lycus river (modern Çürüksu), a tributary Büyük Menderes (the classical Meander), across the valley from ancient Laodicea on the Lycus and modern Denizli. [1]
The Lycus valley was never much inhabited in the Byzantine period, but it was a favored place for the settlement of Greek Orthodox monasteries: [9] famous were those of Dios and Ikasia (or Cassia), Cocorobion and Lips. [6] In 450, while hunting in the valley near Constantinople, Emperor Theodosius II (r. 402–450) fell from his horse and died ...
In Lycia the road from Patara towards Laodicea on the Lycus followed the coast. Important cities were Side , Ptolemais, Gagae and Myra on the coast, Seleucia , inland and Cremna , Colbhasa and Comama , on the Pisidian Plateau, where Augustus had founded Roman colonies (settlements).
The Epistle to the Laodiceans is a possible writing of Paul the Apostle, the original existence of which is inferred from an instruction in the Epistle to the Colossians that the congregation should send their letter to the believing community in Laodicea, and likewise obtain a copy of the letter "from Laodicea" (Greek: ἐκ Λαοδικείας, ek Laodikeas).