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Antakya

Antakya, also known as Antioch, or more specifically Antioch-on-the-Orontes, is the capital of , which was annexed by Turkey after almost two decades of French rule in 1939.
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  • Type: Town with 365,000 residents
  • Description: district and city in Hatay, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Anţākiyah”, “Antākiyyah”, and “Antiokheia”
  • Historically known as: “Antioch” and “Antıoch”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of Saint Peter and Habib-i Nejjar Mosque.

Cave
Photo: Volkan, CC BY 2.5.
The near Antakya, is composed of a carved into the mountainside on Mount Starius with a depth of 13 m, a width of 9.5 m and a height of 7 m.

Mosque
Photo: GrandEscogriffe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a historical mosque in Antakya, Hatay Province, Turkey named after Habib the Carpenter. The mosque is to the east of . The mosque was severely damaged by earthquakes in February 2023.

Peak
is the ancient mountain above Antioch on the Orontes where Io, the daughter of Inachus, dies of grief in the version of the Greek myth preserved by the Syrian historian Ioannis Malalas. In modern Turkish, it is called Habib-i Neccar Dağı.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Defne and Çekmece.

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 155 km2, and its population is 165,494. The district was created in 2013 from parts of the former central district of Hatay and the district of .

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 40,226. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Antakya, , . Its population is 10,600. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town.

Antakya

Latitude
36.2037° or 36° 12′ 13″ north
Longitude
36.1638° or 36° 9′ 50″ east
Population
365,000
Elevation
104 metres (341 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
TR AKA and TR HAT
Open location code
8G8R6537+FG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8097170582
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
323779
Wiki­data ID
Q80561
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Antakya” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Анҭақиа”
  • Afrikaans: “Antakya”
  • Albanian: “Antakja”
  • Arabic: “أنطاكيا”
  • Arabic: “أنطاكية”
  • Arabic: “أَنْطَاكِيَةُ”
  • Arabic: “انطاكيا‎”
  • Arabic: “نتاكيّة”
  • Aragonese: “Antakya”
  • Aragonese: “Antioquía”
  • Armenian: “Անթաքիա”
  • Asturian: “Antioquía”
  • Azerbaijani: “Antakya”
  • Basque: “Antakya”
  • Basque: “Antiokia”
  • Belarusian: “Антак’я”
  • Belarusian: “Антыёхія”
  • Bengali: “আন্তাকিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Antiohija”
  • Breton: “Antakya”
  • Breton: “Antioch”
  • Breton: “Antiokia”
  • Bulgarian: “Антакия”
  • Catalan: “Antakiya”
  • Catalan: “Antakya”
  • Catalan: “Antioquia”
  • Cebuano: “Antakya (kapital sa lalawigan sa Turkiya)”
  • Cebuano: “Antakya”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەنتاکیا”
  • Chechen: “Антаки”
  • Chinese: “哈塔伊”
  • Chinese: “奥龙特斯河畔安条克”
  • Chinese: “安塔基亚”
  • Chinese: “安塔基亞”
  • Chinese: “安提俄克”
  • Chinese: “安提约基雅”
  • Chinese: “安提阿”
  • Chinese: “安提阿克亞”
  • Chinese: “安条克”
  • Chinese: “安條克”
  • Croatian: “Antakya”
  • Croatian: “Antiohija”
  • Czech: “Antakya”
  • Czech: “Antiochie”
  • Danish: “Antakiya”
  • Danish: “Antakya”
  • Danish: “Antiokia”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Antakya”
  • Dutch: “Antakya”
  • Dutch: “Antiochia”
  • Dutch: “Antiochie”
  • Dutch: “Antiochië”
  • Dutch: “Hatay”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “انطاكيا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “انطاكيه”
  • Esperanto: “Antakya”
  • Estonian: “Antakya”
  • Faroese: “Antiokia”
  • Finnish: “Antakya”
  • Finnish: “Antiokia”
  • French: “Antakya”
  • French: “Antioche”
  • Gagauz: “Antakya”
  • Galician: “Antakya”
  • Galician: “Antioquía”
  • Georgian: “ანთაქია”
  • German: “Antakya”
  • German: “Antiochia am Orontes”
  • Gilaki: “أنتاکيه”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌽𐍄𐌹𐌰𐌿𐌺𐌹𐌰”
  • Greek: “Αντάκια”
  • Greek: “Αντιόχεια”
  • Gujarati: “અંટાક્યા”
  • Hebrew: “אנטיוכיה”
  • Hebrew: “אנטקיה”
  • Hindi: “अन्ताक्य”
  • Hungarian: “Antakya”
  • Hungarian: “Antiochia”
  • Ido: “Antiok (Siria)”
  • Ido: “Antiok”
  • Indonesian: “Antakya”
  • Irish: “Antakya”
  • Italian: “Antakya”
  • Italian: “Antiochia di Siria”
  • Italian: “Antiochia”
  • Japanese: “アンタキヤ”
  • Japanese: “アンタクヤ”
  • Japanese: “アンティオキア”
  • Japanese: “アンティオケイア”
  • Kannada: “ಅಂತಕ್ಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Антакия”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Antakya”
  • Korean: “안타캬”
  • Korean: “안타크야”
  • Korean: “안타키아”
  • Korean: “안티키야”
  • Kurdish: “Entakya”
  • Ladino: “Antakya”
  • Latin: “Antiochia ad Orontem”
  • Latin: “Antiochia”
  • Latin: “Antiochus”
  • Latvian: “Antakija”
  • Latvian: “Antakja”
  • Latvian: “Antakya”
  • Lithuanian: “Antakija”
  • Lithuanian: “Antakja”
  • Lithuanian: “Antiochija”
  • Luxembourgish: “Antakya”
  • Macedonian: “Антакија”
  • Malagasy: “Antakya”
  • Malay: “Antakya”
  • Marathi: “अंटाक्या”
  • Mazanderani: “انطاکیه”
  • Minangkabau: “Antakya”
  • Mingrelian: “ანთაქია”
  • Northern Luri: “انتاکیه”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Antakya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Antakya”
  • Norwegian: “Antakya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Antakya”
  • Ossetian: “Антакья”
  • Persian: “انتاکیه”
  • Persian: “انطاکیه”
  • Polish: “Antiochia”
  • Portuguese: “Antakya”
  • Portuguese: “Antáquia”
  • Portuguese: “Antioquia”
  • Romanian: “Antakya”
  • Rundi: “Antakya”
  • Russian: “Антакья”
  • Russian: “Антиохия-на-Дафне”
  • Russian: “Антиохия-на-Оронте”
  • Russian: “Антиохия”
  • Sardinian: “Antakya”
  • Scots: “Antakya”
  • Scots: “انطاكية”
  • Serbian: “Antakya”
  • Serbian: “Антакија”
  • Serbian: “Антиохија”
  • Serbian: “Сиријска Антиохија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Antiohija”
  • Sicilian: “Antiochia”
  • Silesian: “Antakya”
  • Sindhi: “انطاڪيه”
  • Sinhala: “අන්තක්‍යා”
  • Slovak: “Antakya”
  • Slovenian: “Antakja”
  • Slovenian: “Antakya”
  • Somali: “Andaakiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “انطاکیه”
  • Spanish: “Antakia”
  • Spanish: “Antakya”
  • Spanish: “Antioquia de Siria”
  • Spanish: “Antioquía de Siria”
  • Spanish: “Antioquia del Orontes”
  • Spanish: “Antioquía del Orontes”
  • Spanish: “Antioquia”
  • Spanish: “Antioquía”
  • Swahili: “Antakya”
  • Swedish: “Antaki”
  • Swedish: “Antakya”
  • Swedish: “Antiochia vid Orontes”
  • Tajik: “Антокия”
  • Tamil: “அந்தகியா நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “ஆண்டக்யா”
  • Tatar: “Антакья”
  • Telugu: “అంటాక్యా”
  • Thai: “Antakya”
  • Thai: “อันทักยา”
  • Turkish: “Antakya”
  • Turkish: “Antioch”
  • Turkish: “Antiokheia”
  • Twi: “Antakya”
  • Udmurt: “Антакья”
  • Uighur: “ئەنتاكىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Антак’я”
  • Ukrainian: “Антакія”
  • Ukrainian: “Антакья”
  • Ukrainian: “Антіохія”
  • Urdu: “انطاکیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Antokiya”
  • Venetian: “Antiochia”
  • Vietnamese: “Antakya”
  • Volapük: “Antakya”
  • Walloon: “Antiyoke”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Antakya”
  • Welsh: “Antakya”
  • Western Armenian: “Անտիոք”
  • Western Frisian: “Antiochje”
  • Western Mari: “Антакья”
  • Western Panjabi: “انطاکیہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “安塔基亚”
  • Yue Chinese: “安塔基亞”
  • “Antakya”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Antakya”. Photo: Volkanh, CC BY-SA 2.5.