Peace of Apamea
The Peace of Apamea was an act in the city of Apamea Kibotos in Asia Minor in 188 BC. Peace concluded between the Roman Republic and the Seleucid Empire .
The Battle of Magnesia went to peace in 190 BC. BC on Sipylus, in which the Romans under the generals Lucius Cornelius Scipio , later called Scipio Asiaticus , and Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus with the allied troops from Pergamon over the Seleucid king Antiochus III. won.
In this peace King Antiochus III undertook to pay 15,000 talents in 12 annual installments to the Romans, and to deliver up to 10 of the warships. The possession of Asia Minor fell to the Roman allies in Asia, Rhodes , Cibyra and Pergamon, who were built up as central Asian states to oppose the Seleucid Empire.
The peace of Apamea meant the rise of Rome to the dominant power in the eastern Mediterranean. The provisions of the peace treaty have been handed down to Polybios (Polybios 21, 42, 1–27) and Livius (Livius 38, 38).