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Close ✕Antioch on the Orontes
Founded around 300 BCE by Seleucus I Nicator and later a principal city of the Roman East, Antioch was where the overland routes from Iran met Mediterranean shipping at its port of Seleucia…
36.2, 36.2 · exact · c. 300 BCE - present
On the world
- Joined to: Merv — Antioch on the Orontes · 2 places
- Joined to: Antioch on the Orontes — Constantinople · 2 places
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Connections
- is connects to of Merv — From Merv the routes cross the Iranian plateau through Nishapur, Rayy and Mesopotamia to reach the Mediterranean at Antioch.
- connects to Constantinople — Antioch transferred overland goods to Mediterranean shipping via Seleucia Pieria; Constantinople was the other great terminus, reached by sea and by the Anatolian land routes.
- is originates in of Glass — Roman Syria, around Antioch and the Levantine coast, was among the principal production regions for the cut and moulded vessels that travelled east — the clearest counter-flow to silk, and useful evidence precisely because glass breaks and stays where it broke.
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