Special Exhibitions
Antioch Exhibition
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Antioch Exhibition |
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Antioch the Beautiful and Great Antioch ranked with Rome, Alexandria, and Constantinople as one of the four great cities of the Roman and Early Christian world, but it is by far the least known. Today called Antakya, it is located in the Hatay province of southeastern Turkey, near the border with Syria. Few visitors to the modest Turkish town would guess the extent of its vanished glory.Antioch, like modern New York or Los Angeles, was a consumer city, attracting ambitious entrepreneurs from all over the Mediterranean world. Antioch was a vital metropolis set on the crossroads between the Euphrates River to the east and the ports of the Mediterranean to the west, and between Ephesos to the north and Jerusalem to the south. It was a city where cultural and economic forces of the East and the West came together.
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