ISSUS, BATTLE OF


Meaning of ISSUS, BATTLE OF in English

(333 BC) Battle on the Issus plain near the Gulf of Iskenderun (in present-day southern Turkey) in which Alexander the Great , on the offensive, defeated Darius III, last king of the Achaemenian dynasty .

The Macedonians were said to have lost only 450 men. Darius escaped, but the victory led to Alexander's victories over Phoenicia and Egypt.

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