id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
en-wikipedia-org-5142		Laodicea in Syria - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1569	197	70	Laodicea (Ancient Greek: Λαοδίκεια) was a port city and an important colonia of the Roman Empire in ancient Syria,[1] located near the modern city of Latakia. During the Severan dynasty, a third century imperial dynasty of Rome from Syrian origins, the emperor Septimius Severus named with the title "Metropolis" the city in 194 AD and allowed the Ius Italicum (exemption from empire taxation) to Laodicea, that was later called a "Roman Colonia". The Romans made a "Pharum" at the port, that was renowned as one of the best of Ancient Levant; then created a Roman road from southern Anatolia toward Berytus and Damascus, that greatly improved the commerce through the port of Laodicea. The heretic Apollinarius was bishop of Laodicea in the 4th century, when the city was fully Christian but with a few remaining Jews. Bishops of Laodicea[edit]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5142.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5142.txt