ierapolis

Updated: May 15, 2025

We are therefore able to explain to ourselves why, beginning from the time of Augustus, all the industrial cities of the Orient Pergamon, Laodicea, Ephesus, Ierapolis, Tyre, Sidon, Alexandria entered upon an era of new and refulgent prosperity. Finally, we add the singular enriching of two nations, whose names return anew united for the last time, Egypt and Gaul.

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