Antioch

Antioch

Antioch ranks 315th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Pisa, Curitiba, and Las Vegas. Memorable people born in Antioch include Luke the Evangelist, John Chrysostom, and Posidonius. Memorable people who died in Antioch include Germanicus, Julia Domna, and Suleiman ibn Qutulmish. Antioch has been the birth place of many politicians, and religious figures and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Antioch is located in Türkiye.

Antioch on the Orontes was a Hellenistic Greek city founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC. One of the most important Greek cities of the Hellenistic period, it served as the capital of the Seleucid Empire and later as regional capital to both the Roman and Byzantine Empire. During the Crusades, Antioch served as the capital of the Principality of Antioch, one of four Crusader states that were founded in the Levant. Its inhabitants were known as Antiochenes. The modern city of Antakya, in Hatay Province of Turkey, was named after the ancient city, which lies in ruins on the Orontes River and did not overlap in habitation with the modern city. Read more on Wikipedia