🏛️ Antioch-Seleucia Pieria
Hellenistic port city and early Christian centre in southern Türkiye
📌 Fast Facts
- Location: Hatay Province, southern Türkiye, near the Syrian border
- Historical periods: Founded 300 BCE as a Seleucid city; major port under Roman rule
- Significance: One of the earliest centres of Christianity; third-largest city in the Roman Empire by the 1st century CE
- Current status: Archaeological site with excavated remains and museum collections
Antioch-Seleucia Pieria comprises two interconnected ancient settlements on the Mediterranean coast of what is now southern Türkiye. Seleucia ...