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Antiochea Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Antiochia or Antiocheia or Antiochea or Antiokheia may refer any of several Hellenistic cities in the Near East which were founded or rebuilt by the several rulers named Antiochus during the Seleucid Empire:
In modern Turkey
- Antioch (Antiochia ad Orontem, Syrian Antiochia or Great Antiochia), modern Antakya
- Principality of Antiochia, a Crusader state centered on it
- Nisibis or Antiochia Mygdonia, in ancient Mesopotamia, now Nusaybin, Mardin Province
- Antioch, Pisidia (also Antiochia in Phrygia), near modern Yalvaç, Isparta Province
- Aydin, also known as Antiochia, Tralles or Tralleis, modern Aydin, Turkey
- Alabanda or Antiochia of the Chrysaorians, Caria, modern Doganyurt (formerly Araphisar), Aydin Province
- Antioch on the Maeander (Antiochia ad Mæandrum), in Caria, formerly Pythopolis, ruins near Kuyucak, Aydin Province
- Antiochia, Lydia, precise location unknown
- Samosata or Antiochia in Commagene, now Samsat, Adiyaman Province
- Cebrene or Antiochia in Troad, Kevrin or Kebrene, now in Canakkale Province, Turkey
- Edessa, Mesopotamia or Antiochia on the Callirhoe, former capital of Osroene, later named Justinopolis and Edessa, now Sanliurfa
- Tarsus (city), Antiochia on the Cydnus, or Tarsos, Mersin Province
- Antiochia Lamotis (Antiochia in Isauria), now near Erdemli, Mersin Province
- Antiochia ad Cragum (Antiochetta, Antiocheta, or Latin: Antiochia Parva), now Güney, Antalya Province
- Antiochia ad Pyramum, ruins near Karatas, Adana Province
- Adana (Antiochia in Cilicia), now Adana, Adana Province
- Antiochia ad Taurum, in Cilicia later in Commagene, probably now Gaziantep (less probably, Aleppo, Syria)
- Antiochia Paraliou, location unknown but some identify it with Antiochia ad Cragum; probably in Turkey
- Antiochia in Mesopotamia, also Antiochia in Arabia and Antiochia Arabis, probably near Viransehir, Sanliurfa Province, Turkey
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