“The earthquake is always with us ... is omnipresent in Antakya, Antioch on the Orontes whose history goes back millennia. Its historic centre was a lively maze of narrow streets for centuries ...

"It wasn't the earthquake but the destruction of our home ... No place was worse hit than Antakya, the site of the ancient city of Antioch, where 90 percent of its buildings were lost and more ...

When it came to describing the devastation wrought on Antioch by the earthquake of 526, the Byzantine chronicler John Malalas told a tale of fire and brimstone not unlike that of February 2023.

While the world's spotlight is on the tragedy in Myanmar, the rebirth of the Turkish region struck by an equally powerful quake on 6 February 2023 is still far away. “The earthquake is alway ...

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