Issus

Issus was a town of Cilicia near the head of the gulf of the same name (the Gulf of İskenderun), on the borders of Cilicia and Syria in modern southern Turkey. The Greek army of the Ten Thousand passed through Issus with Cyrus the Younger; Xenophon records the march in the Anabasis. (The same plain was later the site of Alexander's 333 BC victory over Darius III.)