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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Districts of Hatay, Economy of Hatay, History of Hatay, Military in Hatay, People from Hatay Province, Populated places in Hatay Province, Antioch, Antakya, skenderun, Hatay State, MMK-Ataka Metallurgy, Alalakh, Yalc n Kucuk, Mustafa Kemal University, Vak fl, Samanda, Seleucia Pieria, Iskenderun Naval Base, Zeliha im ek, Tell Tayinat, Yaylada, Belen, Hatay, Selcuk nan, sdemir, List of municipalities in Hatay Province, Erzin, Turkey, Dortyol, Rhosus, Reyhanl, Hatay Airport, Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia, Bagras, Issus, Alt nozu, 526 Antioch earthquake, K r khan, Payas, Hassa, Hatay, Antigonia, Trapessac, Arsuz, Kumlu, Belen Pass, Otoyol 53, Harbiye, Aktepe, enkoy, Myriandrus, Cathedral of the Annunciation, skenderun, Tayfur Sokmen. Excerpt: Antioch on the Orontes (Greek: Georgian: Armenian: Antiok; Latin: Arabic:, Antakya; also Great Antioch or Syrian Antioch) was an ancient city on the eastern side of the Orontes River. It is near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey. Founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch eventually rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the Near East and was a cradle of Gentile Christianity. It was one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis. Its residents are known as Antiochenes. Once a great metropolis of a half million people, it declined to insignificance during the Middle Ages because of repeated earthquakes, the slaughter of its inhabitants by a Mameluk army in 1268, and a change in trade routes, following the Mongol conquests, which then no longer passed through Antioch from the far east. Two routes from the Mediterranean, lying through the Orontes gorge and the Beilan Pass, converge in the plain of the Antioch Lake (Baluk Geut or El Bahr) and are met there by The settleme...
