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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Antioch

Also known as Antiochia, Antioch on the Orontes, Antakya

  • city
  • Hellenistic/Roman

The great Hellenistic city on the Orontes, capital of Roman Syria and a center of eastern government and trade. Earthquakes, Persian wars, and Crusader occupation repeatedly damage and restore it.

Type
city
Style
Hellenistic/Roman
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 16
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The great Hellenistic city on the Orontes, capital of Roman Syria and a center of eastern government and trade. Earthquakes, Persian wars, and Crusader occupation repeatedly damage and restore it.

Key events

  1. Book 1
    Ch. 261    First CrusadeIn 1095, Pope Urban II called for a crusade to recapture Jerusalem from Muslim control; the First Crusade resulted in the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 and the establishment of Latin Christian states in the Levant.

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