Pinaka (Coruene)

Pinaka is an ancient city in Corduene, Assyria.

During the early years of the Seleukid Empire it proved hard to integrate the ancient city into the civil administration, with its citizens feeling passed over in favour of the new Greek cities.

While Seleukos I Nikator was campaigning in Syria, his wife, Apama, put her considerable administrative experience to use to reassure the city and drew up a plan to fund the expansion of the city. Yet grievances ran deep, and in 279 BC Pinaka joined the Syrian Rebellion during the reign of Apama's son Antiochos.