Where was Antioch? (both Antiochs of Acts)

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Acts names two Antiochs. Antioch on the Orontes, the capital of Syria, lay about 25 km from the sea between the river and Mount Silpius; today it is Antakya in southern Turkey, about 500 km north of Jerusalem in a straight line and 611 km by the roads on the map, with Seleucia as its port. Antioch of Pisidia stood on a hill near modern Yalvaç in central Turkey, about 500 km north-west of the Syrian city in a straight line and about 815 km from Jerusalem, also in a straight line. Seleucus I founded the Syrian Antioch in 300 BC, and Josephus counts it the third city of the Roman world after Rome and Alexandria. There believers scattered after Stephen's death preached to Greeks, Barnabas brought Saul from Tarsus, and "the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch". Its church sent relief to Judea in the famine and, at the word of the Holy Spirit, set apart Barnabas and Saul; all three of Paul's journeys on the map set out from it, and he withstood Peter there. Antioch of Pisidia was a Seleucid foundation that Augustus made a Roman colony after 25 BC; William Ramsay found fragments of a Latin copy of Augustus' Res Gestae there in 1914. On the first journey Paul and Barnabas "came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down", and there Paul gave the first of his sermons that Acts reports at length; when the Jews opposed them they turned to the Gentiles and were expelled, and went on to Iconium. Many scholars think the Letter to the Galatians was written to these churches of the south of the province; others hold that it went to the north.