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🏛️ Mopsouhestia-Issos

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🏛️ Mopsouhestia-Issos
Ruins of a Hellenistic and Roman port city in southern Turkey


🕐 2 min read · Updated 16 Mar 2026 at 07:41
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  • Located in Adana Province, southern Türkiye, near the Mediterranean coast
  • Founded as a Hellenistic settlement; later became a significant Roman port
  • Site of the Battle of Issus (333 BCE) between Alexander the Great and Darius III
  • Archaeological remains span from the Hellenistic period through the Byzantine era

Mopsouhestia-Issos is an archaeological site in Cilicia, southeastern Türkiye, preserving remains of an ancient Mediterranean port city. The ...

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