Yet, in a city where almost everyone lost family members and friends, life continues. A limited number of künefe shops managed to reopen their doors, providing a taste of normalcy to their resilient customers as they rebuild – something locals here have done for centuries. คาสิโนออนไลน์888 These recent earthquakes were not the first disaster to strike the area known locally as Antioch or Antakya (due to its historical name), which was the capital of several empires since the death of Alexander the Great. Dr A Asa Eger, an associate professor of the Islamic world at the University of North Carolina, and Andrea U De Giorgi, an associate professor of Classical studies at Florida State University, described the city's resiliency as "something quintessentially Antiochene" in their 2021 book Antioch: A History, after stating that it had witnessed about 10 earthquakes in its history causing extreme damage and loss of life.