Antiochia/Theoupolis

settlement · 1750 BC – 2100 AD

A city founded ca. 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator, a successor of Alexander the Great. Antioch was a great trading center and numbered as one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis. Justinian I renamed the city 'Theoupolis' in the sixth century AD.

Antiochia/Theoupolis
Coordinates
36.22255, 36.18321
Also known as
ANTIOCHIA (la), Antakya (tur), Antakya (tr), Antakya (tr), Antioch (en), Antioch (en), Antiocheia (grc), Antiocheia am Orontes, Antiocheia am Orontēs, Antiocheia epi Orontou, Antiocheia on the Orontes (grc), Antiocheia epi Daphnē, Antiocheia on Daphne (grc), Antiochia (cy), Antiochia (la), Antiochia am Orontes (deu), Antiochia di Siria (ita), Antiochie (cs), Antiogië (af), Antioquia (ca), Antioxiya (az), Antıoch, Anṭakya, Antakya (ota), Anṭaqya, Anṭaḳya, Antaqya (ota), Anṭākiya, Antakiya, Antakiyah, Antakiyya, Antakiyyah (arb), Anṭākiyye (ota), Anṭākya, Hatay (tr), III Gallica (Vesp.) garrison, III Gallica (Vespasian) garrison (en), Iopolis, Theoupolis, Αντιόχεια (el), Антакья (rus), Антиок (rus), Антиохий (cv), Антиохия (bg), Антыёхія (be), Անտիոքը Օրոնտեսի վրա, أنطاكية (ar), انطاکیه (ota), আন্তাখ্যা (bn)
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