Apamea Myrlea, or Apamea Myrleon, was an ancient city on the Sea of Marmara, in Bithynia, Anatolia; the ruins are now found a few kilometers south of Mudanya, Bursa Province in the Asian part of Turkey. Apamea Myrlea in Greek is Απάμεια Μυρλεανός, also transliterated as Apameia Myrleanos. It was formerly Brylleion and Myrlea (Greek: Μύρλεια, also transliterated as Murleia or Myrleia). In Latin it was Colonia Iulia Concordia and also recorded as Apamena. The city was founded by the Colophonians. In antiquity Apamea was the port of Prusa (now, Bursa). Philip V of Macedon took the town, as it appears, during the war which he carried on against the king of Pergamon, and he gave the place to King Prusias I of Bithynia, his ally. Prusias, who...
