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issus An ancient city and seaport in Cilicia, in Asia Minor, close to
the frontier of Syria, on or near the head of the Sinus Issicus, now the
Gulf of Scanderoon. It was in the neighborhood of this city that
Alexander the Great annihilated the Persian army under Darius in 333
B.C. Here too was fought (194 A.D.), the bloody battle between Septimus
Severus and Pescennius Niger, by virtue of which the former became sole
master of the Roman empire. The exact site of Issus has not yet been
discovered.
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