🏛️ Antioch-Alexandria ad Issum
Ruins of a Hellenistic and Roman city in southern Turkey
📌 Fast Facts
- Located near the Issos plain in Hatay Province, Turkey, close to the Syrian border
- Founded by Seleucus I Nicator after 300 BCE; later refounded as Alexandria ad Issum by the Seleucids
- Site of the Battle of Issos (333 BCE), where Alexander the Great defeated Darius III
- Excavations have revealed Hellenistic and Roman period structures, mosaics, and pottery
Antioch-Alexandria ad Issum stands as an archaeological site preserving remnants of Hellenistic and Roman settlement on the Mediterranean ...