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For centuries, the people of Judaea had seen many foreign dynasts claim hegemony over them; the Greeks were but the latest.

Laodicea holds an important place in history. Founded on the site of an earlier city by Antiochus II, king of the Seleucid Empire, between 261 and 253 BCE, it was named in honor of his wife Laodice.