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Issus (Cilicia) Issus or Issos ( Phoenician: Sissu, grc, Ἰσσός or Ἰσσοί) 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 in ...

, an ancient settlement in the modern Turkish province of Hatay **

Battle of Issus The Battle of Issus (also Issos) occurred in southern Anatolia, on November 5, 333 BC between the Hellenic League led by Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Empire, led by Darius III. It was the second great battle of Alexander's conquest of ...

, in 333 BC, in which Alexander the Great defeated Darius III *

Issus (river) Issus, a river in Cilicia, Asia Minor Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the ...

, a river near the town and battle site *

Issus (diocese) Issus or Issos ( Phoenician: Sissu, grc, Ἰσσός or Ἰσσοί) 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 in ...

, a Roman Catholic titular see in the town *

Gulf of Issus The Gulf of Alexandretta or İskenderun ( tr, İskenderun Körfezi) is a gulf of the eastern Mediterranean or Levantine Sea. It lies beside the southern Turkish provinces of Adana and Hatay. Names The gulf is named for the nearby Turkish city o ...

, near the town *

Issus, Haute-Garonne Issus is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. Population See also Communes of the Haute-Garonne department The following is a list of the 586 communes of the French department of Haute-Garonne. The communes co ...

, a commune in France * ''Issus'' (planthopper), a genus of planthoppers in the family Issidae * Issus, the ostensible Goddess of Death and Eternal Life in the

Barsoom Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs. The first Barsoom tale was serialized as ''Under the Moons of Mars'' in 1912 and published as a novel as '' A Princess of Ma ...

series of novels