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en-wikipedia-org-6421		Antioch - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	13652	2262	69	The city may have had up to 250,000 people during Augustan times,[4] but it declined to relative insignificance during the Middle Ages because of warfare, repeated earthquakes, and a change in trade routes, which no longer passed through Antioch from the far east following the Mongol invasions and conquests. Antioch became the capital and court-city of the western Seleucid Empire under Antiochus I, its counterpart in the east being Seleucia; but its paramount importance dates from the battle of Ancyra (240 BC), which shifted the Seleucid centre of gravity from Anatolia, and led indirectly to the rise of Pergamon.[14] The Antioch Chalice, first half of 6th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 256 AD, the town was suddenly raided by the Persians under Shapur I, and many of the people were slain in the theatre.[14] It was recaptured by the Roman emperor Valerian the following year.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6421.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6421.txt