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<< Text Pages >> Issus (Cilicia) - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 23 September 2014  Page Views: 1823

Multi-periodSite Name: Issus (Cilicia) Alternative Name: Issos
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 17.203 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Erzin
Latitude: 36.973263N  Longitude: 36.120503E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Settlement in Hatay Province, Turkey

A Hellenistic town dating from the 5th century BCE, possibly on a much older site. The Battle of Issus where Alexander the Great defeated Darius III in 333 BCE was fought a little to the south-east of the town.
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Re: Issus (Cilicia) by davidmorgan on Sunday, 21 August 2016
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Music chamber found in ancient city of Isos by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 23 September 2014
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A music chamber has been discovered in a 5,000 year-old ancient city in the eastern province of Hatay’s Erzin neighborhood. It is thought that the chamber, which dates back to the Roman era and which was built with rare “odeon” architecture, was once used for treatment.

Excavations have been continuing for eight years in the ancient city of Isos (Epiphane), which was a significant settlement in 545 B.C. The battle between the Macedonian king Alexander the Great and the Persian king Darius took place in this region.

Isos is mentioned in history books as a trade city and was a multicultural city where the Roman, Byzantine, late Hittite, Persian and Ottoman empires all settled.

A 20-person excavation team, headed by the Hatay Museum archaeologist Ömer Çelik, unearthed some parts of a Roman road in the ancient city this year, revealing that shops at the time were reached through the northeast of the road. Excavations in this area revealed Odean architecture, as well as the music chamber that was discovered. Officials think sick people were treated in this chamber.

In addition, excavations in a hill unearthed an amphitheater from the Roman era. The seats of the ancient theater have been so far revealed and currently works are focusing on the theater stage.

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