Antioch
Sign in to saveAntioch was a city located in northern Syria at the site of modern Antakya, Turkey. Founded in 300 BC, Antioch became one of the most important cities of the ancient eastern Mediterranean. The capital of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, it remained significant under the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and during the Crusades was the centre of the Principality of Antioch.
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Antioch was an ancient city in northern Syria (now Turkey) founded in 300 BC that became one of the most important centers of the eastern Mediterranean world. It served as the capital of the Seleucid Empire and remained a major city under Roman and Byzantine rule, and later became the center of a Crusader principality.
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- Ancient site.name
- Antioch on the Orontes
- Ancient site.image
- Antiochia su Oronte.PNG
- Ancient site.caption
- Map of Antioch in Ancient and early Medieval times under Roman rule
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey
- Ancient site.map_size
- 270
- Ancient site.location
- Antakya, Hatay Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.builder
- Seleucus I Nicator
- Ancient site.built
- 300 BC
- Ancient site.abandoned
- Insignificant by the end of the 15th century
- Ancient site.epochs
- Hellenistic to medieval
- Ancient site.cultures
- Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, Armenian, Syriac, Arab, Byzantine, Outremer, Turkish
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25 sectionsContents
- Location and topography
- Early history
- Foundation and naming
- Hellenistic age
- Roman period
- Roman rule before Constantine
- Christianity
- Age of Julian and Valens
- Theodosius and after
- Arab and Byzantine era
- Crusader era
- Consolidation of the Principality
- Second Crusade
- Third Crusade
- Fifth Crusade
- Fall of Antioch
- Ottoman period
- Archaeology
- Notable people
- See also
- Footnotes
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Antioch was a city located in northern Syria at the site of modern Antakya, Turkey. Founded in 300 BC, Antioch became one of the most important cities of the ancient eastern Mediterranean. The capital of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, it remained significant under the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and during the Crusades was the centre of the Principality of Antioch.
Seleucus I Nicator, a successor of Alexander the Great, founded Antioch alongside three other cities to secure the surrounding region, which he had recently conquered. He chose a site on the Orontes River in the southwest Amuq plain, a fertile lowland which provided valuable resources for Antioch; the city was strategically located and came to dominate trade routes. It served as the Seleucid capital from 240 BC until 63 BC, when the Romans took control; it was thereafter the capital of Roman Syria. Antioch may have been inhabited by over 500,000 inhabitants at its peak, making the city the third largest in the Roman Empire after Rome and Alexandria.
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