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Old town in Asia Minor
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issus
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Issus ( or Ἱσσοί) is an ancient settlement on the strategic coastal plain straddling the small Pinarus river (a fast melt-water stream several metres wide) below the navigationally difficult inland mountains towering above to the east in the Turkish Province ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Issus \Issus\ prop. n. A battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III. Syn: battle of Issus.
Usage examples of issus.
He had outlived two of his sons: Hector had died at the Battle of the Issus three years ago, while Nicci had been slain at Arbela fighting alongside his King.
That is but one of the superstitions which Issus has foisted upon a credulous humanity.
The place meant is a port on the northern side of the gulf of Scandaroon, or Issus, which in our modern maps and books of geography has the various appellations of Lajazzo, Aiazzo, Aiasso, L'Aïas, and Layassa.
He climbed until he was two hundred feet high and sped over the massive oak and pine forest, the Tulgey Wood, and the river Issus toward the huge clearing at the foot of the high hill on which Alice's mansion stood.