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THE MARKET-PLACE OF MODERN ANTIOCH 



Although it played a major role in the early history of Christianity and it was here that 

 "the disciples were first called Christians," Mohammedanism is now the dominant faith of 

 this region, as the minaret overlooking the market suggests. 



Photographs by Stephen Van R. Trowbridge 

 HILLSIDES NEAR ANTIOCH TERRACED FOR THE CULTIVATION OF MULBERRY TREES 



