a town of Turkey in Asia, in Carmania, with a bishop's see, over against the island of Cyprus. E. Long. 32° 15'. N. Lat. 36° 42'.

ANTIACHIA (anc. geog.), a town of Affrya, situated between the rivers Tigris and Tornadotus (Pliny).—Another of Caria, on the Meander; called also Pythopolis, Athymbra, and Nyssa, or Nyza (Stephanus): but Strabo says, that Nyza was near Tralles.—A third of Cilicia Trachea, on mount Cragus (Ptolemy).—A fourth, called Epiphanes, the capital of Syria, distinguished from cities of the same name, either by its situation on the Orontes, by which it was divided, or by its proximity to Daphne (See Antioch).—A fifth Antiochia, a town of Comagene, on the Euphrates (Pliny).—A sixth, of Lydia Trallis, so called (Pliny).—A seventh, of Margiana (Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy), on the river Margus, taking its name from Antiochus, son of Seleucus, who rebuilt it, and walled it round, being before called Alexandria, from Alexander the founder, and surnamed Syria; in compass seventy stadia; whither Orodes carried the Romans, after the defeat of Crassus (Pliny).—An eighth, in Mesopotamia, on the lake Calirhoe, the old name of Edessa (Pliny).—A ninth Antiochia, on the river Mygdonius, in Mesopotamia, situate at the foot of mount Matius, and is the same with Nisibis (Strabo, Plutarch). It was the bulwark and frontier town of the Romans against the Parthians and Persians, till given up to the Persians, by Jovinian, by an ignominious peace (Amnian, Eutropius).—A tenth Antiochia, was that situate in the north of Pisidia (Luke, Ptolemy, Strabo): it was a Roman colony, with the appellation, Caesarea. There is an Antiochia at mount Taurus, mentioned by Ptolemy, but by no other author.

ANTIOCHIAN SECT OF ACADEMY, a name given to the fifth academy, or branch of academies. It took the denomination from its being founded by Antiochus, a philosopher contemporary with Cicero.—The Antiochian academy succeeded the Philonian. As to point of doctrine, the philosophers of this sect appear to Antiochian have restored that of the ancient academy, except that in the article of the criterion of truth. Antiochus Antiparos, was really a stoic, and only nominally an academic.