ANTAKIYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Antakiya mean? 

• ANTAKIYA (noun)
  The noun ANTAKIYA has 1 sense:

1. a town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity

  Familiarity information: ANTAKIYA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTAKIYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Antakiya; Antakya; Antioch

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Antakiya" is a part of...):

Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)