The New Student's Reference Work/Antioch

Antioch (ăn' tĭ-ŏk), named from its founder, Antiochus, was long celebrated as one of the first cities of the east. The name Christians was first given to the disciples of Christ in this city. It was captured by the Saracens and the Crusaders. Once richer than Rome itself, but devastated by earthquakes and impoverished by conquests, it was finally razed to the ground by the Mamelukes, in 1269. The "Queen of the East," as it was called, is now only a small town.