Antigonia

Antigoneia (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνεια, also transliterated as Antigonea and Antigonia) was an ancient city founded in 307 BC by Antigonus I Monophthalmus, one of the successors of Alexander the Great, in the northern Levant. Established as a joint capital of Antigonus's empire alongside Celaenae in Anatolia, Antigoneia occupied a strategically important position on the Orontes River and on trade routes. A large settlement with a perimeter of seventy stades—7.5 miles (12 km)—and a population well over 20,000, Antigoneia was the site of several important events of Antigonus's reign. However, following Antigonus's death in the 301 BC Battle of Ipsus, Antigoneia's prominence abruptly ended, as his rival Seleucus I took control of the region. Seleucus ensured Antigoneia's erasure by transferring its population to his own foundations at Seleucia Pieria and Antioch; he is alleged to have destroyed the city itself, but one source attests that it existed as late as 53 BC. Its exact location is unknown.

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