Antiochia/Theoupolis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors:
M. Ballance, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Francis Deblauwe, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Ryan Horne, Eric Kansa
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 30, 2018 03:41 PM
—
History
A city founded ca. 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator, a successor of Alexander the Great. Antioch was a great trading center and numbered as one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis. Justinian I renamed the city 'Theoupolis' in the sixth century AD.
Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658381
36.2225515, 36.183214
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640)
- GeoNames location of Antakya İlçesi (modern)
- Antakya (Turkish, 1750 BC - AD 2000)
- Antiocheia (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 1307)
- Antiocheia am Orontes (140 BC - AD 640)
- Antiocheia am Orontēs (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Antiocheia epi Daphnē (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- Antiochia (750 BC - AD 640)
- Antiochia (AD 1683 - AD 1918)
- Antiochia (Georgian, 1200 BC - AD 1291)
- Anṭakya (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1453 - AD 1918)
- Anṭaqya (AD 1453 - AD 1683)
- Anṭaḳya (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1453 - AD 1683)
- Anṭākiya (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 632 - AD 1500)
- Anṭākya (AD 1099 - AD 1291)
- Hatay (Turkish, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- III Gallica (Vesp.) garrison (Georgian, 140 BC - AD 640)
- Iopolis (unspecified date range)
- Theoupolis (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Antiochia/Theoupolis connection Orontes (river) (unspecified date range)
- Antiochia/Theoupolis connection Orontes (river) (unspecified date range)
- Antiochia/Theoupolis connection Untitled (unspecified date range)
- Antiochia/Theoupolis connection Untitled (unspecified date range)
-
None
urban area, settlement, amphitheatre, amphitheater
- Evidence:
- See Further:
-
- BAtlas 67 C4 Antiochia/Theoupolis
- Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G. 1972. Antioch: city and imperial administration in the later Roman Empire. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- New Pauly, Antiocheia [1]
- PECS (Perseus), ANTIOCH ON THE ORONTES (Antakyé) Turkey
- Princeton University, Antioch Catalogue of Photographs
- Wikipedia (English) Antakya
- Wikipedia (English) Antioch
- amphi-theatrum.de: 1999
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 67 C4 Antiochia/Theoupolis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Antakya
T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier, M. Ballance, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Francis Deblauwe, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Ryan Horne, and Eric Kansa, 'Antiochia/Theoupolis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658381> [accessed: 25 April 2018]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658381 |title=Places: 658381 (Antiochia/Theoupolis) |author=Sinclair, T., P. Gatier |accessdate=April 25, 2018 6:28 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}