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Encyclopedia Britannica



ANTAKIA

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 132 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANTAKIA , the modern town, is still of considerable importance. Pop. about 25,000, including Ansarieh,
Jews
 , and a large
body
  of Christians of several denominations about 8000 strong. Though superseded by Aleppo (q.v.) as
capital
  of N. Syria, it is still the centre of a large
district
 , growing in wealth and productiveness with the draining of its central lake, undertaken by a French company. The
principal
  cultures are tobacco, maize and
cotton
 , and the mulberry for silk production. Liquorice also is collected and exported. In 1822 (as in 1872) Antakia suffered by
earthquake
 , and when Ibrahim Pasha made it his headquarters in 1835, it had only some 5000 inhabitants. Its hopes, based on a Euphrates valley railway, which was to have started from its port of Suedia (Seleucia), were doomed to disappointment, and it has suffered repeatedly from visitations of cholera; but it has nevertheless grown rapidly and will resume much of its old importance when a railway is made down the lower Orontes valley. It is a
132
centre of American mission enterprise, and has a British vice-
consul
 .
See C. O. Muller, Antiquitates Antiochenae (1839); A. Freund, Beitrage zur antiochenischen . . Stadtchronik (1882) ; R. Forster, in Jahrbuch of Berlin Arch. Institute, xii. (1897). Also authorities for SYRIA. (D. G. H.)


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