Seleucia

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Seleucia
     the sea-port of Antioch, near the mouth of the Orontes. Paul and
     his companions sailed from this port on their first missionary
     journey (Acts 13:4). This city was built by Seleucus Nicator,
     the "king of Syria." It is said of him that "few princes have
     ever lived with so great a passion for the building of cities.


     He is reputed to have built in all nine Seleucias, sixteen
     Antiochs, and six Laodiceas." Seleucia became a city of great
     importance, and was made a "free city" by Pompey. It is now a
     small village, called el-Kalusi.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Seleucia, shaken or beaten by the waves