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Antioch

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An·ti·och  (nt-k)
1. An ancient town of Phrygia north of present-day Antalya, Turkey. It was a center of Hellenistic influence and was visited by Saint Paul in biblical times.
2. See Antakya.
3. A city of western California northeast of Oakland on the San Joaquin River near the mouth of the Sacramento River. It is a processing and shipping center. Population: 101,000.
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Noun1.AntiochAntioch - a town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity
Antakiya, Antakya
Republic 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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In the nineteenth century Antioch is -- that is to say, Antioch will be -- in a lamentable state of decay.
Four Beasts in One by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
The seafaring folk of Antioch had seen us breaking out topsail and staysail, a most reckless performance in such weather, and had hurried to the wharf-ends in little groups to find out what was the matter.
Tales of the Fish Patrol by London, Jack View in context
Hours afterward, in the fires of sunset, where the Sacramento and the San Joaquin tumble their muddy floods together, I took the New York Cut-Off, skimmed across the smooth land-locked water past Black Diamond, on into the San Joaquin, and on to Antioch, where, somewhat sobered and magnificently hungry, I laid alongside a big potato sloop that had a familiar rig.
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