Laodicea or Laodicea Combusta – Greek: Λαοδίκεια), also transliterated as Laodiceia or Laodikeia; also Laodikeia Katakekaumenê and Λαοδίκεια Κεκαυμένη; later Claudiolaodicea – was a Hellenistic city in central Anatolia, in the region of Pisidia; its site is currently occupied by Ladik, Konya Province, in the Asian part of Turkey. Laodicea was one of the five cities built by Seleucus I Nicator, and named after his mother Laodice. Its surname (Latin: Combusta) is derived by Strabo ( from the volcanic nature of the surrounding country, but Hamilton asserts that there is not a particle of volcanic or igneous rock in the neighbourhood; and it may be added that if such were the case, the town would rather have been called, in Greek, Laodikeia...
