Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Antiochīa

（Ἀντιόχεια).

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1.

The capital of the Greek kingdom of Syria, and long the chief city of Asia. It stood on the left bank of the Orontes, about twenty miles from the sea, in a beautiful valley. It was built by Seleucus Nicator, about B.C. 300, who called it Antiochia in honour of his father, Antiochus, and peopled it chiefly from the neighbouring city of Antigonia. It was one of the earliest strongholds of the Christian faith; the first place where the Christian name was used (Acts xi. 26); and the see of one of the four chief bishops, who were called patriarchs.

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2.

Antiochia ad Maeandrum, a city of Caria, on the Maeander, built by Antiochus I. (Soter) on the site of the old city of Pythopolis.

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3.

A city on the borders of Phrygia and Pisidia; built by colonists from Magnesia; made a colony under Augustus, and called Caesarea.