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As Antiochia in Commagene, it served as the capital for the Hellenistic kingdom of Commagene from c. 160 BC until it was surrendered to Rome in 72.
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Antiochia and Commagene
* Samosata or Antiochia in Commagene, now Samsat, Adıyaman Province
* Antiochia ad Taurum, in Cilicia later in Commagene, probably now Gaziantep ( less probably, Aleppo, Syria )
For a time, the city was called Antiochia in Commagene ().
Antiochia and capital
Upon reaching their own kingdom, Lysias and Antiochus V found Philip in control of the capital Antiochia, but they defeated him and retook the city and kingdom.
Zabinas fled to the Seleucid capital Antiochia, where he plundered several temples.
* Edessa, Mesopotamia or Antiochia on the Callirhoe, former capital of Osroene, later named Justinopolis and Edessa, now Şanlıurfa
The capital of the enlarged province remained in Antiochia.
540 ) following his sack of Syrian Antiochia in 538, he was forced to rename his capital " Antiochia ".
Antiochia and for
In Galicia, it is said that at the bottom of the Antela lake there are remnants of the ancient population of Antiochia, which was eradicated from the face of earth by a night deluge, in punishment for the sins of its inhabitants.
Some of the cities included " Antiochia " or " Seleucia " in their official names ( Antiochia Hippos, for example ), which attest to Seleucid origins.
Following the defeat of his brother in 95 BC by Antiochus X Eusebes, Antiochus XI and yet another brother, Philip I Philadelphus, opted for revenge and besieged Antiochia.
Established as Antiochia Hippos () by Seleucid settlers, the city is named after the Greek language word for horse, Hippos, and a common name of Seleucid monarchs, Antiochus.
There are two Latin translations from the Arabic, the first one dating from around 1120 by John of Seville for the a Portuguese queen ( preserved today in some 150 copies ), the second one from circa 1232 by Philippus Tripolitanus ( preserved in more than 350 copies ), made in the Near East ( Antiochia ).
Antiochia and Hellenistic
After the death of Epicurus, his school was headed by Hermarchus ; later many Epicurean societies flourished in the Late Hellenistic era and during the Roman era ( such as those in Antiochia, Alexandria, Rhodes and Ercolano ).
After the death of Epicurus, his school was headed by Hermarchus ; later many Epicurean societies flourished in the Late Hellenistic era and during the Roman era ( such as those in Antiochia, Alexandria, Rhodes, and Ercolano ).
Others state that it is named after some of the other many Hellenistic ancient cities in the middle east named Antiochia which were founded as well by some of the Antiochus Kings during the Seleucid Empire ( 312 – 63 BC ).
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:
Antiochia and kingdom
The name was changed to Antiochia Ptolemais shortly after Alexander the Great's conquest, and then to Ptolemais, probably by Ptolemy Soter, after the partition of the kingdom of Alexander the Great.
Antiochia and from
He established himself in Antiochia after 92 BC and survived attacks from younger brother Demetrius III Eucaerus.
Roman mosaic from Antiochia ( detail ) 2nd century, Musée du Louvre
The most important building is the church of San Pietro di Antiochia which has frescoes dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and paintings by Girolamo Romanino ( a Madonna and child ), Zenon Veronese ( a Deposition ) and other artists of the Venetian school.
The Church of Santa Margherita d ' Antiochia was expanded upon and renovated over the course of the 16th and 17th centuries, and thereafter was erected the octoganal bell tower that rises from the apse.
Antiochia and .
* 526 – An earthquake kills about 300, 000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
In particular the Pisans founded colonies in Antiochia, Acre, Jaffa, Tripoli, Tyre, Latakia and Accone.
* Antiochus III gives his sister Antiochia in marriage to King Xerxes of Armenia, who acknowledges Antiochus III's suzerainty and pays him tribute.
Other major towns were Latmus, refounded as Heracleia under Latmus, Antiochia, Myndus, Laodicea, Alinda and Alabanda.
Merv ( Persian: مرو, Marv ), formerly Achaemenid Satrapy of Margiana, and later Alexandria and Antiochia in Margiana (), was a major oasis-city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, located near today's Mary in Turkmenistan.
The native Syriac name of the city " Orhay " () appears to correspond with the toponym Antiochia Kallirhoe " Antioch by the Kallirhoe " (), which is found on Edessan coins struck by Antiochus IV Epiphanes ( 175-164 B. C .).
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Its full name, Antiochia Hippos (), reflects a Seleucid founding.
Antiochia Hippos was improved with all the makings of a Greek polis: a temple, a central market area, and other public structures.
Antioch in Pisidia – alternatively Antiochia in Pisidia or Pisidian Antioch () and in Roman Empire, Latin: Antiochia Caesareia or Antiochia Caesaria – is a city in the Turkish Lakes Region, which is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Aegean and Central Anatolian regions, and formerly on the border of Pisidia and Phrygia, hence also known as Antiochia in Phrygia.
Antiochia and was
Merv was renamed Antiochia Margiana, by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus Soter, who rebuilt and expanded the city at the site presently known as Gyaur Gala ( Turkish Gayur Kala ) ( Fortress ).
For a while it was named Callirrhoe or Antiochia on the Callirhoe ().
The city was renamed Antiochia in Pieria by Antiochus I Soter.
Commagene and capital
Iotapa was most probably born, raised and educated in Samosata, the capital of the Kingdom of Commagene.
She was most probably born, raised and educated in Samosata, the capital of the Kingdom of Commagene.
She was most probably born, raised and educated in Samosata, the capital of the Kingdom of Commagene.
The founder of the city was Sames, a Satrap of Commagene who made it his capital.
341 ), the province of Euphratensis was created out of the territory of Syria Coele along the western bank of the Euphrates and the former realm of Commagene, with Hierapolis as its capital.
Samsat ( Samosata ) was later the walled capital of the Commagene kingdom founded in 69BC, the civilisation that built the statues on top of nearby Mount Nemrut.
341 ), the province of Euphratensis was created out of the territory of Syria Coele and the former realm of Commagene, with Hierapolis as its capital.
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