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    The Battle of Issus (also Issos) occurred in southern Anatolia, on 5 November 333 BC between the Hellenic League led by Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid...
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    Battle of Alexander at Issus (German: Alexanderschlacht) is a 1529 oil painting by the German artist Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538), a pioneer of landscape...
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    Alexander Mosaic, also known as the Battle of Issus Mosaic, is a Roman floor mosaic originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii, Italy. It is typically...
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    the battle near the mouth of the Pinarus River and south of the village of Issus. Darius was apparently unaware that, by deciding to stage the battle on...
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  • 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...
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    Uxians 8 Gaugamela 7 Alexandria 6 Gaza 5 Tyre 4 Issus 3 Miletus 2 Granicus 1 Pella     The Battle of Gaugamela (/ˌɡɔːɡəˈmiːlə/ GAW-gə-MEE-lə; Ancient...
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    Niger Battle of Issus (622) or the Third Battle of Issus, in which the Byzantine emperor Heraclius defeated the Sassanid shah Shahrbaraz Whether Issus is...
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  • Battle of Issus may refer to: Battle of Issus (or 'The Battle at Issus') (333 BC), a battle in which Alexander the Great of Macedonia defeated Darius...
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  • issus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Issus may refer to: Issus (Cilicia), an ancient settlement in the modern Turkish province of Hatay Battle of...
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  • following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding...
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  • Heraclius' campaign of 622, erroneously also known as the Battle of Issus, was a major campaign in the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 by emperor Heraclius...
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    After Severus defeated Niger at the battle of Issus in 194, he turned on Albinus and defeated him at the battle of Lugdunum in 197. Most historians count...
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    Philippicarum recount that Darius fled out of fear at the Battle of Issus and again two years later at the Battle of Gaugamela despite commanding a larger...
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    Craterus (category Ancient Macedonians killed in battle)
    from Orestis and brother of admiral Amphoterus. Craterus commanded the phalanx and all infantry on the left wing in Battle of Issus in 333 BC. In Hyrcania...
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  • Amanian Gate (category Mountain passes of Turkey)
    Nabonidus Chronicle. The pass played an important role leading to the Battle of Issus. The Persian army advanced through the Amanic Gate or another nearby...
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    Hephaestion (category Generals of Alexander the Great)
    technical. The first mention of his career in the sources is a diplomatic mission of some importance. After the battle of Issus (333 BC) when Alexander was...
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    daughter of Stateira and Darius III of Persia. After her father's defeat at the Battle of Issus, Stateira and her sisters became captives of Alexander of Macedon...
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    Alexander Sarcophagus (category Collection of the Istanbul Archaeology Museums)
    been the sarcophagus of Abdalonymus (died 311 BC), the king of Sidon appointed by Alexander immediately following the Battle of Issus (333 BC). Scholar Andrew...
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    and Darius. It is not known whether this "great battle" refers to the Battle of Issus or the Battle of Gaugamela. The purported location—somewhere in Khorasan...
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    Uxians 8 Gaugamela 7 Alexandria 6 Gaza 5 Tyre 4 Issus 3 Miletus 2 Granicus 1 Pella     The Battle of Jaxartes was fought in 329 BC by Alexander the Great...
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    6 Gaza 5 Tyre 4 Issus 3 Miletus 2 Granicus 1 Pella     The Battle of the Granicus in May 334 BC was the first of three major battles fought between Alexander...
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    Punjab, Pakistan, after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC. Alexander was so grieved at the loss of his horse that he named one of the many cities he founded...
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    and Armenian troops. Instead of a battle in Moravia, I would have won a Battle of Issus, I would have made myself emperor of the East, and I would have...
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    Companion cavalry (category Military units and formations of the Hellenistic world)
    Lake Bolbe. During the Battle of Issus, Arrian names the ile of Anthemus (modern Galatista),; another, from the unidentified land of Leuge (likely Pieria)...
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  • of Alexander the Great's battles, it was also used during the Second Punic War during the Battle of Cannae and the Battle of Zama. In 48 BC, Pompey the...
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    Sisygambis (category Queens consort of the Achaemenid Empire)
    mother of Darius III of Persia, whose reign was ended during the wars of Alexander the Great. After she was captured by Alexander at the Battle of Issus, she...
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    she was captured by Alexander the Great after the Battle of Issus, in 333 BC, at the town of Issus. Her husband abandoned his entire family at the site...
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    defeated the rival claimants at the Battle of Issus in 194, and Clodius Albinus, whom he defeated at the Battle of Lugdunum in 197, granting Severus sole authority...
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  • Greek mercenary survivors of the Battle of Issus - who had served in the Persian army – a force of 8,000 veterans. In the summer of 331 BC, Agis defeated...
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  • Parmenion (category Generals of Philip II of Macedon)
    cut off the only Macedonian line of supply. The battle between the two forces took place south of Issus in November 333 BC. The Macedonians were victorious...
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