Laodicea,

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Laodicea
     The city of this name mentioned in Scripture lay on the confines
     of Phrygia and Lydia, about 40 miles east of Ephesus (Rev.
     3:14), on the banks of the Lycus. It was originally called
     Diospolis and then Rhoas, but afterwards Laodicea, from Laodice,
     the wife of Antiochus II., king of Syria, who rebuilt it. It was


     one of the most important and flourishing cities of Asia Minor.
     At a very early period it became one of the chief seats of
     Christianity (Col. 2:1; 4:15; Rev. 1:11, etc.). It is now a
     deserted place, called by the Turks Eski-hissar or "old castle."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Laodicea, just people