The town of Antioch is today, the city of Antakya, a city under Turkish occupation in the southern-most part of Turkey. Known as the cradle of Christianity, it was originally part of the territory of the Syriac Christians who inhabited the lands from Antioch in the west to western Iran in the east, and represented the churches belonging to the Syrian Orthodox Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Assyrian Church, and the Chaldean Catholic Church. Most of the followers of these churches have left Antioch over the years due to Turkish oppression.
Recently, an amazing archaeological find was discovered under a luxury hotel in the area attesting to ancient, non-Turkish habitation, the ancesters of today's Syriac Christians. See article here.
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