Now known as Nahavand in modern Iran, the city was founded by Darius I the Great, in Media along with the two other Achaemenid
cities of Apamea and Xerxes. (Strabo xi. p. 524 ; Xerxes "Laodikeia") Pliny (vi. 29) describes it as being in the extreme
limits of Media, and (re-)founded by Xerxes I. It is also known as Laodicea in Media, Laodicea in Persis, Antiochia of Chosroes,
and Antiochia in Media.