Erzin, also known as Yeşilkent, is a city in the province of Hatay, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.
Population: 26,316
Latitude: 36° 57' 12.53" N
Longitude: 36° 11' 54.20" E
The Battle of Issus occurred in southern Anatolia, in November 333 BC between the Hellenic League led by Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Persia, led by Darius III, in the second great battle of Alexander's conquest of Asia. The invading Maced…
Issus (Ancient Greek: Ἱσσός or Ἱσσοί) is an ancient settlement on the strategic coastal plain straddling the small Pinarus river (a fast melt-water stream several metres wide) below the navigationally difficult inland mountains towering above to the…
Osmaniye (Turkish: [osmɑŋiye];) is a nice city in the Çukurova region of Turkey, the capital of Osmaniye Province. Area 3,767 km². Population of Osmaniye city: 219,339. Osmaniye Province: 512,804 (2014).
The Nur Mountains (Turkish: Nur Dağları, "Mountains of Holy Light"), the ancient Amanus (Ancient Greek: Ἁμανός), is a mountain range in the Hatay Province of south-central Turkey, which runs roughly parallel to the Gulf of İskenderun.
The Battle of Issus was the third major battle in 194 between the forces of Emperor Septimius Severus and his rival, Pescennius Niger, part of the Year of the Five Emperors.
Dörtyol is a port city and oil terminus at the head of the Gulf of İskenderun, near the easternmost point of the Mediterranean coast.
The Pinarus River is a small stream in southern Anatolia near today's Turkey—Syria border.
Erzin, also known as Yeşilkent, is a city in the province of Hatay, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.
Toprakkale is a town and district of Osmaniye Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. It is located at 10 km to the west of Osmaniye.
Zorkun is a yayla (summer resort) in Osmaniye Province, Turkey. Zorkun is at (36°58′N36°21′E) on the Nur Mountains, a chain mountain running in north -south direction, parallel to East Mediterranean coast. It is at an average altitude of about 1,55…