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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.
The canons of the Synod of Laodicea posted in the ruins of the central church of Laodicea. The Council of Laodicea was a regional Christian synod of approximately thirty clerics from Asia Minor which assembled about 363–364 in Laodicea, Phrygia Pacatiana.
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The city was a place of great finance and banking. In 60 A.D. the city was hit by a major earthquake. The city refused help from the Roman Empire and rebuilt the city of its own accord. [10] The reference to the "white raiment" may refer to the cloth trade of Laodicea. The city was known for its black wool that was produced in the area. [10]
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona. [1] Phoenix was incorporated as a city in 1881, after being founded in 1867 near the Salt River close to its confluence with the Gila River. The city has numerous historic properties which have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places. There are also 33 ...
In the 3d c. A.D. the city became the seat of a famous school of law and continued to flourish until the earthquake of A.D. 551 ravaged the city....Its streets, laid out on a grid plan, are spaced at roughly the same intervals as those of Damascus and Laodicea. The new Roman city spread farther S and W (of the port), with its Forum near the ...
Laodicean Church, early Christians in Laodicea on the Lycus; Epistle to the Laodiceans, an apocryphal epistle attributed to Paul the Apostle; Council of Laodicea, a synod held about 363–364 CE; A Laodicean, an 1881 novel by Thomas Hardy; Laodice (disambiguation) Ladoceia, a town of ancient Arcadia, Greece