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Issus (Cilicia) Issus (Latin; Phoenician: ''Sissu'') or Issos (, ''Issós'', or , ''Issoí'') was an ancient settlement on the strategic coastal plain straddling the small Pinarus river (a fast melt-water stream several metres wide) below the navigationally di ...

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

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

(333 BC), in which Alexander the Great of Macedonia defeated Darius III of Persia **

Battle of Issus (194) The Battle of Issus was the third major battle in AD 194 between the forces of Emperor Septimius Severus and his rival, Pescennius Niger, part of the Year of the Five Emperors. The Severan forces, commanded by Publius Cornelius Anullinus, won th ...

, in which P. Cornelius Anullinus defeated Septimius Severus's rival Pescennius Niger ** Battle of Issus (622), in which the Byzantine emperor Heraclitus defeated Shahrbaraz of Persia **

Issus (diocese) Issus (Latin; Phoenician: ''Sissu'') or Issos (, ''Issós'', or , ''Issoí'') was an ancient settlement on the strategic coastal plain straddling the small Pinarus river (a fast melt-water stream several metres wide) below the navigationally di ...

, a Roman Catholic titular see in the town * Issus (river), a river near the town and battle site * Gulf of Issus, near the town * Issus, Haute-Garonne, 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 pulp magazine '' The All-Story'' from February to Jul ...

series of novels

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