The Gulf of Alexandretta or İskenderun (Turkish: İskenderun Körfezi) is a gulf of the eastern Mediterranean or Levantine Sea. It lies beside the southern...
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Myriandus (category Geography of Hatay Province)
Gulf of Alexandretta. Its ruins are located near the modern city of İskenderun in southern Turkey. Herodotus records the entire Gulf of Alexandretta as...
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northwest of the Gulf of Alexandretta. The kingdom had its origins in the principality founded c. 1080 by the Rubenid dynasty, an alleged offshoot of the larger...
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Mediterranean Sea (redirect from Sea of Mediterranea)
Its west–east length, from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Gulf of Alexandretta, on the southeastern coast of Turkey, is about 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi)...
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Sea Gulf of Gökova Sea of Crete Sea of Marmara Gulf of İzmit Levantine Sea Gulf of Antalya Gulf of Alexandretta Libyan Sea Gulf of Sidra Gulf of Gabès...
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Metropolitan areas with a population of 1,000,000 or higher are sorted by population. Cities are ordered by their position on the Mediterranean, from west...
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Marash Triple Junction (category Geology of Turkey)
path at the East Anatolian Fault. The junction site is near the Gulf of Alexandretta, and is ~700 km distant from the Karlıova Triple Junction. After...
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East Anatolian Fault (category Seismic faults of Turkey)
fault extending from the Gulf of Alexandretta to the North Anatolian Fault. The description of its southern end contradicts that of Allen. McKenzie also stated...
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earthquake takes place in the vicinity of Mopsuestia, and the Gulf of Alexandretta (İskenderun) October 12 – The Synod of Clofesho (possibly Brixworth) is held...
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İskenderun (redirect from Postage stamps and postal history of Alexandretta)
historically known as Alexandretta (Greek: Αλεξανδρέττα, lit. 'little Alexandria') and Scanderoon, is a municipality and district of Hatay Province, Turkey...
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cause of dissension between them was the ownership of the strongholds of the southern Amanus, and on the neighboring coasts of the Gulf of Alexandretta. Leo...
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Anah (category District capitals of Iraq)
approximately midway between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf. Anah lies from west to east on the right bank along a bend of the river just before it...
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Chester concession (category History of the Republic of Turkey)
the building of port and terminal facilities on the Black Sea and the Gulf of Alexandretta. The corporation could utilize the resources of the public lands...
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Anatolia (redirect from Names of Anatolia)
considered to extend in the east to an indefinite line running from the Gulf of Alexandretta to the Black Sea, coterminous with the Anatolian Plateau. This traditional...
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Eastern Anatolia Region (category Regions of Turkey)
boundary of which was a line from the Black Sea to the Gulf of Alexandretta, which is to the west of what is now the Eastern Anatolia Region. As a geographical...
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803 Mopsuestia earthquake (category History of Adana Province)
803 Mopsuestia earthquake took place in the vicinity of Mopsuestia and the Gulf of Alexandretta (İskenderun) in 802 or 803 CE (Hijri year 187). The main...
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Marco Polo (category People of the War of Curzola)
1296, off the Anatolian coast between Adana and the Gulf of Alexandretta (and not during the battle of Curzola (September 1298), off the Dalmatian coast...
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Expeditionary Force to Egypt. From January 1915, Philomel patrolled the Gulf of Alexandretta in the Eastern Mediterranean, supporting several landings and sustaining...
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The Battle of Alexandretta was the first clash between the forces of the Byzantine Empire and the Fatimid Caliphate in Syria. It was fought in early 971...
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Thoros II (redirect from Thoros II of Armenia)
renounce its right of possession of the whole of Cilicia so long as it had access to the ports of the Gulf of Alexandretta. Byzantium also disclaimed all...
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Syrian Kurdistan (redirect from History of Syrian Kurdistan)
Nusaybin and Alexandretta (İskenderun) on the Mediterranean Sea's Gulf of Alexandretta. At the beginning of the 17th century, land on either side of the Euphrates...
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Bertrandon de la Broquière (category Year of birth unknown)
Armenia, and rounded the gulf of Alexandretta. The voyage across Asia Minor was relatively fast. At Iconium Bertrandon took leave of the caravan and joined...
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earthquake takes place in the vicinity of Mopsuestia, and the Gulf of Alexandretta (İskenderun) October 12 – The Synod of Clofesho (possibly Brixworth) is held...
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Fakhr al-Din II (category Emirs of Mount Lebanon)
the Gulf of Alexandretta. The contemporary Damascene historian al-Burini reported that Fakhr al-Din ignored the summons, waiting for the outcome of the...
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emplacement was swiftly destroyed. From Beersheba, Doris proceeded to the Gulf of Alexandretta, where she landed shore parties to disrupt Turkish communication...
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Ceyhan, Adana Province in southern Turkey on the northern coast of Gulf of Alexandretta at northeastern Mediterranean Sea. Tüpraş Kırıkkale Oil Refinery...
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the proximity of the Gulf of Alexandretta. Documentation pertaining to the hišuwa festival mentions an eagle who sat on the shoulder of Manuzi, Eribuški...
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Bursuq the Elder (category Victims of the Order of Assassins)
that Bursuq was settled near the Gulf of Alexandretta. In April 1087, during the marriage ceremony of the daughter of the Seljuk sultan Malikshah I and...
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Romanian air tours over Africa (category Aviation history of Romania)
flying around the Gulf of Alexandretta they landed at Aleppo. The following day they took off, flew over Baalbek and the site of the Battle of Qadesh, and stopped...
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Hananu Revolt (category History of Aleppo Governorate)
November, French troops landed on the coast of the Gulf of Alexandretta and entered the city of Alexandretta, prompting anti-French uprisings in Antioch...
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