Culture Journey of 16.-23.09.04

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Antikes Antiochia who in the vacation does not only look for summers,sun,palms,sand and sea,but also it would like to become acquainted with culture and history of the host country who avoids the large tourist centers and itself rather beyond the withdrawn paths moved,without the comfort of modern travel,is invited,to accompany us after Antakya in the south of Turkey.

We fly nonstop from Berlin to Adana,where an air conditioned minibus waits for us,which will be to us up to the return flight at the disposal.First it brings us into our hotel in Antakya.The Savon hotel lies in the middle of the old part of town and was originally a soaping and an olive factory,which were established around 1860 in at that time the architectural style typical for the area around the Syrian Aleppo and approximately 100 years in enterprise were.It is a beautiful house for fastidious guests.

Antakya is today the capital of Hatay,the southern most province of Turkey. The city has a moved history.Antigonos,field gentleman Alexanders created 307 B.C. at the river Orontes,25 km far away from the Mediterranean coast,the settlement Antigoneia.Seleukos conquered 300 B.C..Nikator,likewise field gentleman Alexanders,the city,called it after its father Antiochia and made it the residence of the Syrian Seleukiden.Their port at the sea received the name Seleukia.

Seleukos 1.Nikator settled approximately 5,000 Macedonians veterans, Antiochia grew and prospered and became soon one of the most influential cities. As wealthy Handelszen trum Antiochia rose on to the third city of the brightistic world to Alexandria in Egypt and Seleukia at the Tigris.It was famous however equally also for its custom lot industrial union.It succeeded to the Egyptian ruler Ptolemaeios III. during the 3. Syrian was 246 B.C. to conquer the port Seleukia Pieria and to occupy probably also Antiochia,but it had to withdraw itself soon again from the area.King Antiochos III.,which carried the Surname the Great ,tried to create in the east realm-stable bordering and undertook from 212 to 205 B.C. a campaign on the traces Alexanders the Great,which led him until Turkestan.His plan failed however,because after the victory over Hannibal,The Roman Empire expanded now to the east and new borders were created.The son of King Antiochos III,Antiochos IV Epiphanes,who governed from 175 to 164 B.C.,conquered first Egypt and was crowned King in Memphis,however soon after he was chased away out of Ptolemaeer Empire by the Romans again.On the way home he sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the Holy places of the Jews.He established Altars for Zeus and Athene and by law all people in his Kingdom has to observe the same religious rites.(1st book of the Makkabaeer,2nd Chapter). With its death the bloom time of the brightistic Metropolitan City Antiochia is ended.During the following decades the Seleukiden Empire under the bloody fights of the Rivals for the throne suffered.One of the pretenders to the throne,King Demetrius,that reports to book of Makkabaeer,11.Chapter: The King fled into his castle.There the people took the lanes and wanted the castle to storm.Therefore the King demanded the Jews,Jews all approached the King and distributed themselves into the lanes.And the same day 100,000 and ignited the city and they killed men.Only as the Antioc