Antiochia/Theoupolis

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Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier — last modified 2017-09-13T06:13:36Z
Contributors: Sinclair, T., P. Gatier, M. Ballance, R. Talbert, J. Åhlfeldt, J. Becker, W. Röllig, T. Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, F. Deblauwe, R. Warner, S. Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, R. Horne, E. Kansa
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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.

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urban, settlement, amphitheatre

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