Issus, anciently, a seaport on a gulf of the same name in Cilicia, Asia Minor, celebrated for the victory which Alexander the Great obtained here over Darius (333 B.C.), by which the camp and treasure and family of Darius fell into his hands.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 238
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