Antiochia ad Taurum

Antiochia ad Taurum

Antiochia ad Taurum (Greek: Αντιόχεια του Ταύρου; "Antiochia in the Taurus") was an ancient city of Hellenistic foundation in the Taurus Mountains of Cilicia (later Commagene province), Anatolia. [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/gazetteer/0039.html] Most modern scholars locate Antiochia ad Taurum at or near Gaziantep, Gaziantep Province, Turkey (formerly called "Aïntab") [http://runeberg.org/nfaa/0303.html] , [http://www.library.uu.nl/wesp/populstat/Asia/turkeyt.htm] , although past scholars tried to associate it with Aleppo (formerly "Halab"), Syria. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0260-7085(1695%2F1697)19%3C160%3ASAOTAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2]

Coins were minted at Antiochia ad Taurum. [http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/geo.html] Antiochia ad Taurum was Christianized early and formed a see in Commagene. [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/hofmann/a/books/a_6221.html]

References

* Bouillet Chassang, Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie ("Aintab")

External links

* [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/gazetteer/0039.html Hazlitt's Classical Gazetteer]


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