- İskenderun (Arabic: إسكندرونة),
historically known as
Alexandretta (Gr****: Αλεξανδρέττα, lit. 'little Alexandria') and Scanderoon, is a muni****lity and...
-
Nahal Alexander and Wadi
Zeimar are the
names of a
river in
Israel that
flows from the
western side of the
Samaria mountain belt in the West Bank to the...
- was born to an
Armenian family in what was then
French mandate Syrian Iskanderun (now part of Turkey). In late 1939, his
family moved to Lebanon. Due to...
-
gained a
victory over the
French and
Venetian ships in the
harbour of
Iskanderun on 11 June. His successes, however,
brought upon the
English merchants...
-
Cilician and
Syrian coasts divided by a hazy gap
which marked the bay of
Iskanderun.
Three of the six
islands are mere
reefs washed from end to end by the...
-
defences stretching from
Tulkarm across the
Plain of
Sharon to the Nahr
Iskanderun. The
objectives of the 3rd (La****), 7th (Meerut) and 75th
Divisions were...
-
engine room of the
Turkish tanker Antares (3723 GRT, 1893) on a trip from
Iskanderun to Haifa,
causing her to be
beached on Ruad Island. The
tanker was later...
- the 50th
Division from
Macedonia and the 59th from
Adana in the Gulf of
Iskanderun. The 1st and 11th
Divisions were also
transferred from the
Caucasus to...
- Hodson's
Horse outflanked another Ottoman position, and
another at Nahr
Iskanderun at 10:15. A
total of 110 prisoners, 2
artillery pieces and 12
wagons were...
- of a
third system ran from
Tulkarm across the
Plain of
Sharon to Nahr
Iskanderun. It has been
suggested that an
inflexible defence relying on a line of...
