Seleucia Pieria (Extinct city)
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Name (Hebrew)
סלוקיה פיאריה (עיר קדומה)
Name (Latin)
Seleucia Pieria (Extinct city)
Other forms of name
Seleucia (Turkey : Extinct city)
Coordinates
35.922 35.922 36.124 36.124 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Extinct cities Turkey
See Also From tracing place name
Turkey
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q1605894
Library of congress:
sh 00005203
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Religious Education, New Testament, Digitial Library, 2000.
- Getty. 28 March 2000(Seleucia Pieria (deserted settlement) Note - Ancient port of Antioch on the Orontes river; ruins include Hellenistic & Roman temples & shrines, city walls & a necropolis; St. Peter sailed from this port & preached to the first Gentile Christian converts here ... fortified city founded ca. 300 BC ... disappeared during the 6th cent. AD)
- Lippincott(Seleucia. or Seleucia Pieria, anc. city on the Mediterranean, once an important port, the sea outlet for Antioch; site was just N of Orontes mouth, S Turkey, near Suveydiye. Founded 300 BC by Seleucus Nicator ... it had all but disappeared by 5th cent. AD)
- Web. geog.(Seleucia ... or Seleucia Pieria. Ancient port of Antioch, now seaport town. SW Hatay, S. Turkey in Asia. See Suveydiye ... Suveydiye ... nearby is the site of ancient Seleucia or Seleucia Pieria which was founded by Seleucus Nicator 300 BC; strongly fortified; it became a great city and seaport, the port of Antioch ... disappeared c. 6th cent. AD)