Capture of Antioch by Bohemund of Taranto in June 1098.
Ottoman city
In 1822 (and again in 1872), Antakya was hit by an earthquake and damaged. When Ottoman general Ibrahim Pasha established his headquarters in the city in 1835, it had only some 5,000 inhabitants. Supporters hoped the city might develop thanks to the Euphrates Valley Railway, which was supposed to link it to the port of Suedia (now Samanda) .However, such plans were doomed to come to naught.
The city suffered repeated outbreaks of cholera due to inadequate infrastructure for sanitation, a problem common around the world. Later the city developed and rapidly resumed much of its old importance when a railway was built along the lower Orontes Valley.
The Republic of Hatay and modern Turkey
See Hatay Province for the history of the region during the demise of the Ottoman Empire, the short-lived Republic of Hatay (in 1938), and the area's incorporation into the Republic of Turkey in 1939.
Education
The main campus of the Mustafa Kemal University, Tayfur Sökmen Campus, is located in Serinyol area 15 km (9.3 mi) north of Antakya. Established in 1992, it has around 24,900 students as of 2010 enrolled in eleven faculites and several colleges and institutes.[