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Antioch

modern Antakya in Turkey, anciently the capital of Syria, founded c.300 B.C.E. by Seleucus I Nictor and named for his father, Antiochus.

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Antioch, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 90532
Housing Units (2000): 30116
Land area (2000): 26.948185 sq. miles (69.795477 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.631797 sq. miles (1.636347 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 27.579982 sq. miles (71.431824 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02252
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.992421 N, 121.802225 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 94509
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Antioch, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 89
Housing Units (2000): 43
Land area (2000): 0.103579 sq. miles (0.268268 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.103579 sq. miles (0.268268 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02148
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.661660 N, 81.067518 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43793
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Antioch, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 8788
Housing Units (2000): 3346
Land area (2000): 7.382701 sq. miles (19.121108 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.261965 sq. miles (0.678487 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.644666 sq. miles (19.799595 sq. km)
FIPS code: 01595
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 42.479069 N, 88.090878 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60002
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Antioch

Antioch on the Orontes (; also Syrian Antioch) was an ancient Greco-Roman city on the eastern side of the Orontes River. Its ruins lie near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey, and lends the modern city its name.

Antioch was founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals. The city's geographical, military, and economic location benefited its occupants, particularly such features as the spice trade, the Silk Road, and the Persian Royal Road. It eventually rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the Near East. It was also the main center of Hellenistic Judaism at the end of the Second Temple period. Most of the urban development of Antioch was done during the Roman empire, when the city was one of the most important in the eastern Mediterranean area of Rome's dominions.

Antioch was called "the cradle of Christianity" as a result of its longevity and the pivotal role that it played in the emergence of both Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity. The Christian New Testament asserts that the name "Christian" first emerged in Antioch. It was one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis, and its residents were known as Antiochenes. The city was once a metropolis of half a million people during Augustan times, but it declined to relative insignificance during the Middle Ages because of warfare, repeated earthquakes, and a change in trade routes, which no longer passed through Antioch from the far east following the Mongol conquests.

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Usage examples of "antioch".

She handed him her note about the crime scene team and asked him to call the Antioch P.

Nick drove down A Street in Antioch and crossed the railroad tracks, turning down Railroad Avenue and up to the familiar dive.

They seemed hardly separable from the feverish sweetness of certain evenings in Antioch, from the excited stir of mornings in Rome, from the famous names which they bore, or from that luxury amid which their last secret was to show themselves nude, but never without ornament.

The emperor came back to Antioch to take up his winter quarters, postponing till spring the invasion of the Parthian Empire itself, but already determined to accept no overture for peace.

December night an earthquake laid a fourth of the city of Antioch in ruins within a few seconds.

But it was during the evil days at Antioch that her presence became indispensable to me, as was always her esteem in after times, an esteem which I kept till her death.

That palace of Antioch, where I was to live some years later on in a virtual frenzy of delight, was for me then but a prison, and perhaps my death cell.

I went so far as to send to the dungeons of Antioch for a criminal intended for crucifixion, whose throat was slit in my presence by a sorcerer in the hope that the soul, floating for an instant between life and death, would reveal the future.

I returned to Antioch, accompanied along the way by the acclamations of the legions.

For an entire winter Londinium became, by my choice, what Antioch had been by necessity at the time of the Parthian war, the virtual center of the world.

I took these so-called revelations with calm, since my respect for the invisible world did not go so far as to give credence to such divine claptrap: ten years before, soon after my accession to power, I had ordered the closing of the oracle of Daphne, near Antioch, which had foretold my rule, for fear that it might do the same for the first pretender who should appear.

Rome by soldiering, but by stirring up so much trouble for Tigranes in Antioch that the King of Kings had rued his decision to put Appius Claudius Pulcher in his place by making him kick his heels for months waiting for an audience.

Appius Claudius created a furor while he kicked his heels in Antioch waiting for Tigranes to give him an audience.

Quintus Marcius Rex arrived in Antioch that Clodius began to see one revenge was at hand.

To Rex it mattered little who owned what in Antioch, in Zeugma, in Samosata, in Damascus.