Antioch Turkey 1731

Restored bird’s eye view of Antioch, Turkey as depicted in 1630, and produced in 1731 by Dutch artist Augustin Calmet.  Antioch was an ancient Greek city on the eastern side of the Orontes River. Its ruins lie near the current city of Antakya, Turkey, to which the ancient city lends its name. Antioch was founded near the end of the fourth century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great’s generals.