Apamea (pronounced ah-pah-MAY-ah) is a city in the Viridian province of Attalea Major. Located at the mouth of the Granicus River, Apamea hosts the largest of the Dominion's shipyards, which use timber from the Sotosa Woods upriver to build ships for both the Viridian navy as well as for private purchasers.
No senatorial family, by monarchic degree upheld by the senate itself, has an estate in or near Apamea. So important are the shipyards to the Viridian state that the port is ruled by a governor appointed directly from the throne of the Dominion, rather than by a governor-appointed mayor as is typical for a Viridian city.