Antakya

Antakya is the seat of the Hatay Province in southern Turkey. In antiquated occasions, Antakya was known as Antioch, and was for quite a long time one of the biggest urban communities in the Roman Empire. It was a persuasive early focal point of Christianity. It has a populace of around 250,000. A large portion of the populace communicates in Turkish as their local dialect, while a minority are local Arabic speakers. Antakya is arranged in an all around watered and ripe valley. The region of Antioch has been involved by people since the Calcolithic time 6000 years BC, as uncovered by archeological unearthings of the hill of Tell-Acana, among others.

The King of Macedon Alexander the Great, in the wake of vanquishing the Persians in the Battle of Issus in 333 BC, pursued the Orontes south into Syria and possessed the territory. The city of Antioch was established in 300 BC, after the demise of Alexander, by the Hellenistic Seleucid King Seleucus I Nicator. It assumed an imperative job as one of the biggest urban areas in the Hellenistic Seleucid Kingdom, in the Roman Empire and in the Byzantium, and it was a key city amid the early long stretches of Christianity, and of the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Antiochian Orthodox Church, and furthermore since the 7^th c. Advertisement with the ascent of Islam, and after the 10^th c. Advertisement with the Crusades.