Antiochia ad Orontem (Antioch-on-the-Orontes, today Antakya):
Antiochia ad Orontem (Antioch-on-the-Orontes) is situated at the easternmost end of Mediterranean and approximately 25 km. from the sea. Today it remains as a small town, the administrative center of Hatay province, but has been once one of the thriving cities of the antique world. It was called the “Queen of the East” in the Roman Period, having been accepted to be one of the four major cities of “the world” (i.e. the Roman Empire). The city expanded from the banks of the Orontes River to the western slopes of the Cassius mountain range. The major urban element, the Orontes River, was navigable in the Antiquity and connected http://dipnot.hypotheses.org/610