_J. C. L. de Sismondi, Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter 10._ ALSO IN: _E. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter 43. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25717_ ANTIOCH: A. D. 540. Stormed, pillaged and burned by Chosroes, the Persian King. See PERSIA: A. D. 226-627. ANTIOCH: A. D. 638. Surrender to the Arabs. See MAHOMETAN CONQUEST: A. D. 632-639. ANTIOCH: A. D. 969. Recapture by the Byzantines. After having remained 328 years in the possession of the Saracens, Antioch was retaken in the winter of A. D. 969 by the Byzantine Emperor, Nicephorus Phokas, and became again a Christian city. Three years later the Moslems made a great effort to recover the city, but were defeated. The Byzantine arms were at this time highly successful in the never ending Saracen war, and John Zimiskes, successor of Nicephorus Phokas, marched triumphantly to the Tigris and threatened even Bagdad. But most of the conquests thus made in Syria and Mesopotamia were not lasting. _G. Finlay, History of the Byzantine Empire, A. D. 716-1007, book 2, chapter 2._ See BYZANTINE EMPIRE, A. D. 963-1025. ANTIOCH: A. D. 1097-1098. Siege and capture by the Crusaders. See CRUSADES: A. D. 1096-1099. ANTIOCH: A. D. 1099-1144. Principality. See JERUSALEM: A. D. 1099-1144. ANTIOCH: A. D. 1268. Extinction of the Latin Principality. Total destruction of the city. Antioch fell, before the arms of Bibars, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and the Latin principality was bloodily extinguished, in 1268. "The first seat of the Christian name was dispeopled by the slaughter of seventeen, and the captivity of one hundred, thousand of her inhabitants." This fate befell Antioch only twenty-three years before the last vestige of the conquests of the crusaders was obliterated at Acre. _E. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter 59. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25717_