The marketplace, the center of political and religious life, has the distinction of being probably the largest Roman agora ever excavated in the Mediterranean region.
एक कारण, सलमीना, सलुकीया मेनलँडपासून केवळ २०० किलोमीटर दूर असलेल्या पूर्व किनाऱ्‍यावर होते.