- İskenderun (Arabic: إسكندرونة),
historically known as
Alexandretta (Gr****: Αλεξανδρέττα, lit. 'little Alexandria') and Scanderoon, is a muni****lity and...
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capital or any settlement. The second-largest city is İskenderun (formerly
Alexandretta).
Sovereignty over most of the
province remains disputed with neighbouring...
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Sanjak of
Alexandretta (Arabic: لواء الإسكندرونة, romanized: Liwa' Al-Iskandarūna; Turkish: İskenderun Sancağı; French:
Sandjak d'Alexandrette) was...
- The Gulf of
Alexandretta or İskenderun (Turkish: İskenderun Körfezi) is a gulf of the
eastern Mediterranean or
Levantine Sea. It lies
beside the southern...
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Alexandretta was
occupied by
France at the end of the
First World War and
constituted part of the
French Mandate of Syria. The
Sanjak of
Alexandretta...
- The
Battle of
Alexandretta was the
first clash between the
forces of the
Byzantine Empire and the
Fatimid Caliphate in Syria. It was
fought in
early 971...
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French controlled the rest of
Ottoman Syria (including Lebanon,
Alexandretta, and
portions of Cilicia). In the
early 1920s,
British and
French control...
- The
Diocese of
Alexandretta is a
titular Christian bishopric centred on the town of
Alexandretta in Turkey. It is also
known as
Alexandrinus or Cambysopolis...
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Paulus (Bishop of
Alexandretta, fl. 518) was a 6th-century
Bishop of
Alexandria Minor or
Alexandretta in
modern Turkey.
Paulus was a Monophysite, so a...
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clashes occurred in the
context of the
ongoing dispute over the
Sanjak of
Alexandretta (today's
Hatay Province), a
region with a
significant Turkish-speaking...
