Issus (town)

Issus (also Issus ) is an ancient seaside town in Cilicia (Asia Minor) in the Gulf of İskenderun. Archaeologists from the University Bilkent suspect that you have identified it as the archaeological site of Kinet Höyük near Dörtyol. The place was known by the Battle of Issus in 333 BC, in which a Macedonian army under Alexander the Great, the vastly superior army of the Persian king, Darius III. , Won.

As a mnemonic you learn in school the saying: "Three - three - three, at Issus brawl. "