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ISSUS

According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Issus is a plain on the coast of the Gulf of Iskenderun, in present-day southern Turkey."

Issus saw battle action in 333 B.C. when Alexander the Great defeated Darius III and his Persians.

 

 

 


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