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ANTAKYA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Antakya mean?
• ANTAKYA (noun)
The noun ANTAKYA has 1 sense:
1. a town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity
Familiarity information: ANTAKYA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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:
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Antakya" 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)
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