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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 132 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTAKIA , the See also:

modern See also:town, is still of considerable importance. Pop. about 25,000, including Ansarieh, See also:Jews, and a large See also:body of Christians of several denominations about 8000 strong. Though superseded by See also:Aleppo (q.v.) as See also:capital of N. See also:Syria, it is still the centre of a large See also:district, growing in See also:wealth and productiveness with the draining of its central See also:lake, undertaken by a See also:French See also:company. The See also:principal cultures are See also:tobacco, See also:maize and See also:cotton, and the mulberry for See also:silk See also:production. See also:Liquorice also is collected and exported. In 1822 (as in 1872) Antakia suffered by See also:earthquake, and when See also:Ibrahim See also:Pasha made it his headquarters in 1835, it had only some 5000 inhabitants. Its hopes, based on a See also:Euphrates valley railway, which was to have started from its See also:port of Suedia (See also:Seleucia), were doomed to disappointment, and it has suffered repeatedly from visitations of See also:cholera; but it has nevertheless grown rapidly and will resume much of its old importance when a railway is made down the See also:lower See also:Orontes valley. It is a 132 centre of See also:American See also:mission enterprise, and has a See also:British See also:vice-See also:consul. See C. O. See also:Muller, Antiquitates Antiochenae (1839); A.

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Freund, Beitrage zur antiochenischen . . Stadtchronik (1882) ; R. See also:Forster, in Jahrbuch of See also:Berlin See also:Arch. See also:Institute, xii. (1897). Also authorities for SYRIA. (D. G.

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