Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), I, Irēné, Issus

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Issus

（Ἰσσός). A city in the southeastern extremity of Cilicia, near the head of the Issicus Sinus (Gulf of Iskenderûn), and at the northern foot of the pass of Mount Amanus, called the Syrian Gates; memorable for the great battle in which Alexander defeated Darius Codomannus (B.C. 333), which was fought in a narrow valley near the town. See Alexander; Darius.

Battle of Issus. (Pompeian Mosaic in the Naples Museum.)

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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