Apameia
A titular
metropolitan see of Syria, in the valley of the Orontes, whose
episcopal list dates from the first century (Gams,( 446, 451). It was
still a flourishing place in the time of the Crusades, and was known
to the Arabs as Fâmieh. Vast ruins of a very ornamental
charcter abound in the vicinity. For another Apameia (in Phrygia)
known as Apameia Cibotos (the Ark) see "Bulletin Critique"
(Paris, 1890), XI, 296-297. There was still another see of the same
name in Bithynia, whose episcopal list is known since the fourth
century (Gams,( 443).
LEGENDRE in
VIGOUROUX, Dict. de la Bible (1891), s.v.; DE VOGUEE, La Syrie
centrale; Architecture civile et religieuse, (Paris, 1866-67);
BUTLER, Architecture etc., in Northern Central Syria (New York),
1903), passim.
