Talk:Latakia
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According to Microsoft Word, "refounded" is not a word.
The site, on the Ras Ziyarah peninsula, has been occupied for a long time. The Phoenicians had a city here named Ramitha, and to the Greeks it was Leuke Akte, then it was refounded and named Laodicea by Seleucus I Nicator, after his mother. It became an important port and an exporter of wine produced in the hills behind the city (Strabo 16.2.9). An arch from the time of Septimius Severus has survived.
Rebuild? Founded again? Something else?
[EDIT] - Ahh got it, edited it to re-founded, just needs a hyphen.
[edit] Photos
Do we really need two photos of the arch right next to each other? Maybe some of the photos could moved down to a gallery section... AnonMoos 13:58, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
