🏛️ Antioch-Seleucia Pieria
Hellenistic port city and early Christian center on the Mediterranean coast of southern Türkiye
📌 Fast Facts
- Founded circa 300 BCE by Seleucus I Nicator as a Hellenistic settlement
- Served as the principal port of Antioch, one of the largest cities in the ancient world
- Located on the Orontes River where it meets the Mediterranean Sea in Hatay Province
- Contains substantial Roman-era remains including a harbor facility, theater, and defensive structures
Antioch-Seleucia Pieria is an archaeological site on the southern Turkish coast where the ancient Orontes River reaches the Mediterranean. Established in the early Hellenistic period, it functioned as the maritime gateway for Antioch, the third-largest city in the Roman Empire. The site preserves structural evidence of Hellenistic and Roman occupation spanning nearly five centuries. Underwater and terrestrial archaeology has revealed the complexity of this port settlement's infrastructure and ...