Demirköprü (also known as Jisr al-Hadid) is a village in the
Antakya District
Antakya (), historically known as Antioch ( el, Ἀντιόχεια; hy, Անտիոք, Andiok), is the capital of Hatay Province, the southernmost province of Turkey. The city is located in a well-watered and fertile valley on the Orontes River, ...
of
Hatay Province
Hatay Province ( tr, Hatay ili, ) is the southernmost province of Turkey. It is situated almost entirely outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province borders Syria to its south and east, the Turkish province of ...
,
Turkey
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. The population of Demirköprü was 1,076 as of 2012. The village was the birthplace of
Yusuf al-Sa'dun, a commander in the
Hananu Revolt
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.
Demirköprü is the location of the ancient settlement of Gephyra (= ''bridge'' in
Greek
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), an important station for the transport of goods from the port of
Seleucia Pieria
Seleucia in Pieria (Greek Σελεύκεια ἐν Πιερίᾳ), also known in English as Seleucia by the Sea, and later named Suedia, was a Hellenistic town, the seaport of Antioch ad Orontes ( Syria Prima), the Seleucid capital, modern Antak ...
to
Antioch
Antioch on the Orontes (; grc-gre, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, ''Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou'', Learned ; also Syrian Antioch) grc-koi, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπ� ...
and further east to
Euphrates.
[Nigel Pollard, ''Soldiers, Cities, and Civilians in Roman Syria'', University of Michigan Press, 2000, , pp. 60, 185.]
References
Villages in Hatay Province
Antakya District
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