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Ἰσσικὸς κόλπος · Issic gulf, gulf of Issos (ι 633) · Suda

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Near ι633

ι629Isidoros, Isidorus, Isidore [of Pelusium]
ι630Isidore, Isidoros
ι631Isidore, Isidoros
ι632Isidore, Isidoros
ι633Issic gulf, gulf of Issos
ι634Issinias
ι635Isis
ι636Isis
ι637know

Suda/Ι iota/ι633

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Ἰσσικὸς κόλπος

Issic gulf, gulf of Issos

Translated by David Whitehead13 May 2001Vetting: high4 revisions

geography
history
military affairs

2 words

Translation

[no gloss]

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἰσσικὸς κόλπος.

Betacode

*)issiko\s ko/lpos.

Notes

At the (N)E extremity of the Mediterranean, where Cilicia met Syria.
For Issos itself, site of a famous victory by Alexander the Great in 333 BCE, see iota 662.

Linked from1 entry

ι662ἸσσόςIssos, IssusName of a city. But i)=sos ["equal"] [means] similar; and it has a circumflex accent. Out of it [comes] also [the comparative] i)so/teros ["more equal"].

Neighbouring entries

ι631ἸσίδωροςIsidore, Isidoros ι632ἸσίδωροςIsidore, Isidoros ι633Ἰσσικὸς κόλποςIssic gulf, gulf of Issos ι634ἸσσινίαςIssinias ι635ἼσιςIsis

Revision history4 revisions · last 15 Jan 2013

15 Jan 2013Revised — David Whitehead
31 Jul 2011cosmetics — David Whitehead
19 Oct 2003more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
9 Dec 2002Revised — Catharine Roth
13 May 2001Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἰσσικὸς κόλπος (Adler number iota 633), trans. David Whitehead, 13 May 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/iota/633

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗