Antioch travel guide

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The city of Antioch (now Antakya, or Αντιόχεια in Greek) is located in what is now Turkey. It has 145,000 inhabitants. Situated on the eastern bank of the Orontes River, was founded in the late fourth century C. by Seleucus I Nicator as the capital of his empire in Syria. Seleucus I had served as general of Alexander the Great and the name of Antiochus was common among family members. Antioch occupies an important place in the history of Christianity. It was in this city where Paul preached his first Christian sermon in a synagogue where Jesus' followers were first called Christians (Acts 11:26). By expanding Christianity, Antioch was one of the sites of the four original patriarchates, along with Jerusalem, Alexandria and Rome. Antioch was called the Queen of the East, situated on the road between East and West and as such an important trading center. For many centuries it was one of the major cities of the Roman Empire, with a population of half a million. The emperor Aurelian built several monumental public structures, then Constantius II built an octagonal cathedral, which was destroyed in an earthquake in 526. The Persians captured the city in 540. The Byzantines recovered Antioch, but finally succumbed to the Muslims in 636. The city (انتاكية, Antākiyyah in Arabic) remained under Arab control until 969, when it was recovered by the Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus II Phocas. The city fell again in 1085, this time at the hands of the Seljuk Turks. Thirty years later was conquered by the Crusaders during the First Crusade and became the capital of the Principality of Antioch. Most of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was under the cross until he was captured by the Mamluk Sultan Baybars in 1268. This destroyed the city so much that he never again be a major city. In 1517 it was conquered by the Ottomans and became part of the Ottoman Empire until the end of the First World War, then going to be part of modern Turkey, though at present continue to survive a strong sense among its inhabitants Syrian . Antakya is now the capital of the Turkish province of Hatay. (...) more....

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