An·ta·kya (än-täk yä) also An·ti·och ( nt - k ) A city of southern Turkey on the Orontes River near the Mediterranean Sea. Founded c. 300 b.c. by Seleucus I, it was an important military and commercial center in the Roman era and an early center of Christianity. Population: 144,000. |
Antakya [ɑnˈtɑkjɑ]
n
(Placename) the Turkish name for Antioch
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| Noun | 1. |  Antakya - a town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of ChristianityRepublic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923 |
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