Antakya

Antakya is a municipality and the capital district of Hatay Province in Turkey, in the Mediterranean region about 22 kilometers inland from the coast, standing on the site of the ancient city of Antioch, founded in the fourth century BC by the Seleucid Empire. It later grew into one of the Roman Empire's largest cities and an influential early center of Christianity. As of 2022 the city had a population of around 400,000 across a total area of 703 square kilometers. On 6 February 2023 Antakya was heavily damaged by two powerful earthquakes, which destroyed at least 1,200 buildings in the city center, collapsed almost all houses in the Cebrail district, and destroyed historic sites including St. Paul's Church and the historic Antakya Synagogue, with the death toll across Hatay Province exceeding 20,000. The city's Hatay Archaeology Museum holds the second largest collection of Roman mosaics in the world. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/