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	Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo-Syria
		Scanderoon), is a town of southeast Turkey, situated in the northeast angle of the Levantine Mediterranean on the southeast of the gulf to which it gives a title.
		Iskanderun preserves the name, but probably not the exact site, of Alexandria ad Issum, founded by Alexander the Great in 333 BC, about 23 miles south of the scene of his victory, to supersede Myriandrus as key of the Syrian Gates (Beilan Pass).
		It was built on a coastal strip of sand and shingle about 1/2 a mile wide near the Phoenician town of Myriandrus.
	www.alepporthodox.org /02-en/03-archdiocese/intro_alexandretta.htm (1483 words)

	Kenelm Digby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From February 5 to March 27 he remained at anchor off Algiers on account of the sickness of his men, and extracted a promise from the authorities of better treatment of the English ships.
		He seized a rich Dutch vessel near Majorca, and after other adventures gained a complete victory over the French and Venetian ships in the harbour of Iskanderun on the June 11.
		His successes, however, brought upon the English merchants the risk of reprisals, and he was urged to depart.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kenelm_Digby (1146 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Sir Kenelm Digby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Physicist, naval commander, and diplomatist, son of Sir Everard Digby, born Gayhurst, England, 11 July 1603; died Covent Garden, England, 11 June 1665.
		He was knighted, 1623, and in 1628 defeated the French and Venetian galleys at Iskanderun, in a privateering expedition.
		In 1642 he was imprisoned for the Faith and then exiled to France, where he wrote two philosophical works.
	www.catholic-forum.com /Saints/ncd02716.htm (77 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sir Kenelm Digby
		French ships anchored in the Venetian haven of Iskanderun or Alexandretta.
		Having got King Charles's leave and taken out letters of marque, he sailed from Deal with two well-equipped ships about Christmas, and after various adventures on the voyage, he reached Iskanderun 10 June, 1628.
		He died of stone on the anniversary of his sea-fight off Iskanderun, and was
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04792b.htm (645 words)

	CHAPTER ONE
		WHILE it was still dark the little cargo-boat came into the Gulf of Iskanderun and cast anchor, waiting for day to break.
		I was aroused by the sudden silence as a Londoner is sometimes awakened in the country.
		It is strange to think of them muffled to the eyes and probably suffering from colds in the head; but these Hellenistic cities, Antioch, Tarsus, and the rest, must have been bitterly cold in January.
	www.coptic.org /language/morton/1.htm (10266 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Will Turkey jump into war? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		G2B was told the common talk in the officers' club in Ankara was around the expectation that the Turkish army would move south shortly after the first shots of the second Gulf War would be fired.
		The Turks reported that one U.S. soldier was injured during this operation, and that U.S. army advance teams inspected railway stations and lines, as well as roads and bridges leading to the border.
		The Kurds had hoped the landing of American troops in Turkish ports, and especially in Iskanderun on the Mediterranean, would allow American forces to roll quickly to the region of Dohuk and along the roads leading from Mosul to Kirkuk.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31677 (1839 words)

	SSCD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		History: According to legend, Cosmas and Damian were twin brothers, the first of a family of seven brothers, born in the third century, in Arabia.
		They studied medicine in Syria and then practiced the art of healing and lived in the Seaport of Aegea, now Ayash (Ajass), on the gulf of Iskanderun in Cilicia, Asia Minor, and attained a great reputation becoming widely known for their great medical skills.
		The twins are credited for being the first to attempt a limb transplant on a human being.
	www.sscosmas-damian.org /Sharing/saints/sscd.htm (620 words)

	French reverse stance on Kurds (KurdishMedia.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mr Lionel Jospin's government denied that it flip-flopped when it agreed to grant the 910 Kurds asylum-seeker status, after insisting that rules must be followed and that immigrant traffickers must not be rewarded.
		Ten magistrates were to have begun hearing the cases yesterday, but the procedure was cancelled for all except two Palestinians who had made their way from southern Lebanon to join the group in the Turkish port of Iskanderun.
		The Kurds held a sit-down inside their camp to demand that the Palestinians also be freed.
	www.kurdmedia.com /articles.asp?id=1163 (506 words)

	Global Strike-Slip Fault Systems: Oblique Divergence, Oblique Convergence, and True Transform Faults II - ...
		These new results in active tectonics combined with an analysis of GPS velocities (from a dense network of 22 stations, Reilinger et al., 2006) provide some constraints on the kinematic modeling at the junction.
		The modeling is consistent with the seismotectonic framework, the newly identified Iskanderun Block and westward escape of Anatolia.
		The junction can be interpreted as a triple point where the DSF transforms the Cyprus arc subduction into the East Anatolian Fault system.
	www.agu.org /meetings/fm06/fm06-sessions/fm06_T41G.html (2341 words)

	The Crackup of the Arab Tyrannies? by Amir Taheri
		In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait and remained in a state of war against the United Nations until the fall of Saddam Hussein.
		The Syrian military regime, for its part, clashed with Turkey over the Iskanderun enclave, and fought several battles with the Jordanian army on the pretext of protecting the Palestinians.
		From the late 1950s onwards, military intervention in Lebanon was to become a permanent feature of Syrian policy.
	travelbrochuregraphics.com /extra/the_crackup_of_the_arab_tyrannies.htm (3210 words)

	(Syrian) Crime should not Pay (Moshe Arens) February, 2004
		People tend to forget that this nonsensical formula has in the past been used by Hitler in 1939, when he declared that he would leave Europe in peace if territories in Poland that Germany lost in World War I were ceded to Germany.
		The Syrians make no such demands of the Turks, who in a "land grab" in 1937 annexed the Syrian port of Alexandretta, now Iskanderun, to Turkey.
		They know only too well what the Turkish response would be.
	www.freeman.org /m_online/feb04/arens.htm (634 words)

	Amir Taheri on Iraq on National Review Online
		But the pan-Arabs also wish to dismantle Iran by detaching the province of Khuzestan, which they call "Aabistan." They also insist on designating the Persian Gulf as the "Arabian Gulf." Turkey has been and remains another target of pan-Arabists.
		Maps in Syrian schoolbooks, for example, show the Turkish province of Iskanderun as part of "the Arab world" along with Iranian Khuzestan.
		It is too early to assess the full impact of the liberation of Iraq on pan-Arabism.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-taheri060603.asp (1218 words)

	Eurofish - Careful engineering allows for sustainable shrimp farming - Disease-free shrimp farming
		Although the engineering described in this article, and the low level of environmental impact it causes, is from a farm in Saudi Arabia, it is suited to all coastal low plains.
		It could be adapted easily to sites around the Mediterranean sea, as the coastal areas of South East Turkey: Tasucu lagoon and river delta, Adana province, and the entire area south of Iskanderun, between Ulçinar and the Orontes River mouth.
		A new type of coastal shrimp farm, the first full size commercial shrimp farm of the Middle-East was tested and developed on the shores of the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia.
	www.eurofish.dk /indexSub.php?id=595&easysitestatid=237207286 (802 words)

	The Turkish Empire
		So also the Lebanon range, extending from this same point of departure, the Gulf of Iskanderun, separates the narrow coast line from the Syrian Desert and the Hauran.
		They have however almost entirely disappeared, and the only sections of forest to-day are along the shores of the Black Sea, in the region of Bitlis and between Marash and the Gulf of Iskanderun.
		Elsewhere the country is desolate, and the traveler is often directed on his way by landmarks of single trees.
	www.armenianhouse.org /bliss/turkey/01-turkish-empire.html (4471 words)

	Bexar
		Passing through the Strait of Gibraltar 10 days later, the ship anchored at Malta on 18 January to disembark the marines.
		Following a one-day visit to Iskanderun, Turkey on the 27th, she headed back to Norfolk, arriving there on 14 February.
		Bexar remained on the east coast for the next year and a half carrying troops and cargo between Norfolk, Quantico, and Morehead City.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/b6/bexar-i.htm (2863 words)

	Das Hotel- und Urlaubsportal für Iskanderun und Türkei / Turkey - Hotels, Pensionen, Jugendherbergen, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Das Hotel- und Urlaubsportal für Iskanderun und Türkei
		Willkommen auf dem Hotel- und Urlaubs-Portal für Iskanderun und Türkei
		Die Türkei und Iskanderun entwickeln sich als eine der beliebtesten Feriengegend - egal ob Luxushotel oder einfaches Familienhotel.
	www.iskanderun.hotel-urlaub-tuerkei.info (180 words)

	Zhirinovsky Vladimir Volfovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 1967 he tried to join the CPSU but failed to get a recommendation from the Bureau of the Komsomol Committee of Moscow University.
		For his pre-diploma practice in 1969-1970 Zhirinovsky was sent for one year to Turkey to work as a trainee translator for the State Committee for External Economic Ties at the metallurgical plant in Iskanderun.
		During this practice he was arrested "for communist propaganda" - he gave his acquaintances as souvenirs Soviet lapel pins (Zhirinovsky says that those were innocuous pins with scenes of Moscow while the police claimed that they were subversive because they depicted Lenin and Karl Marx).
	www.panorama.ru /works/oe/zhirinoe.html (2842 words)

	HEM Editor’s Blog » Blog Archive » Iskanderun
		But a friend had mentioned that in relating genealogical information, his mother had confused the ancient city of Alexandria with Alexandretta (now called Iskanderun).
		I had never heard of Iskanderun, so I had to look it up.
		Described as “a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations,” I discovered NationMaster, a Web site that is an info nympho’s dream.
	www.homeedmag.com /blogs/editorial/?p=55 (249 words)

	Swagmans Sailing Blog
		This 80 mile leg across from Mersin on the southern Med coast to Iskanderun on the most eastern Med coast of Turkey, was another overnight affair.
		Last year one yacht had to be hauled from the water with a complete plastic greenhouse cover - 120 metres long and 20 metres wide - welded to its propellor.
		We were lucky - and saw nothing at all except lobster pots on our apporach to Iskanderun fishing boat harbour.
	www.yotblog.com /swagman/1016 (230 words)

	The Cradle of Mankind: Life in Eastern Kurdistan
		The new direct railway line to Iskanderun harbour will henceforth augment its importance; and when the completion of the Baghdad railway links it up with Constantinople and India it may even attain the position once held by Antioch itself.
		DUE east and west, from the Gulf of Iskanderun almost to the heel of the Caspian, there stretches a range of lofty mountains-a sort of natural bulwark, fencing off the high rugged plateau of Asia Minor on the north from the low level plain of Mesopotamia on the south.
		At its western extremity this range is known as the Taurus, but further east it appears now to possess no generic name; yet it well deserves so much distinction, for it is here that the peaks attain their highest altitude, and hold in their wild recesses some of the grandest scenery in the world.
	www.aina.org /books/com/com.htm (18421 words)

	Sea — UNJLC
		The port is divided into several sections: outer harbor, middle harbor and inner harbor, and an explosives anchorage.
		Toros Marine Terminal, a multipurpose deep water marine terminal located at Ceyhan in Iskanderun Bay on the eastern Mediterranean, is internationally competitive in efficiency and capacity.
		As Turkeys largest dry bulk port, the Marine Terminal gives port, storage and bagging services for coal, petroleum coke, clinker, pumice stone, fertilizer, grains and feed-grains, edible oil and petroleum products.
	www.unjlc.org /23003/5585/5602/8640/9740 (360 words)

	World Threats
		If Israel had never appeared on the map, the energy of pan-Arab nationalism movement, which dominated Arab politics in the post-war era, would have been directed against two other neighbors: Turkey and Iran.
		Even today, the Arab League claims that the Turkish province of Iskanderun is "usurped Arab territory" and regards the Iranian province of Khuzestan as "occupied Arab land."
		And Arab Sunni Islamism is an even more deadly threat to Iran.
	www.worldthreats.com /middle_east/Ayatollahs.htm (813 words)

	redump.emubase.de - LSD Docs
		From Berlin, you must catch a Zeppelin flight to Iskanderun, where the Holy Grail is located....
		You are now on your way to Iskanderun, where the final resting place of the Holy Grail is located!
		THE GRAIL TEMPLE When you enter the Grail temple, you will be unable to save or load the game.
	redump.emubase.de /lsd_view.php?id=271 (2964 words)

	Israpundit » Blog Archive » ISRAEL & THE AYATOLLAHS
		If Israel had never appeared on the map, the energy of pan-Arab nationalism movement, which dominated Arab politics in the post-war era, would have been directed against two other neighbors: Turkey and Iran.
		Even today, the Arab League claims that the Turkish province of Iskanderun is “usurped Arab territory” and regards the Iranian province of Khuzestan as “occupied Arab land.”
		And Arab Sunni Islamism is an even more deadly threat to Iran.
	www.israpundit.com /2006/?p=711 (883 words)

	Iran? Hardly Israel's problem alone \| Jerusalem Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		To a certain extent, that did, actually happen, despite the fact that Israel became the principal target of Arab nationalistic rage.
		Even today the Arab League claims that the Turkish province of Iskanderun is, in fact, "usurped Arab territory." The league also regards the Iranian province of Khuzestan as "occupied Arab land," and insists on re-labeling the Persian Gulf as "Arabian Gulf."
		League members are also committed to "liberating" three Iranian islands, located in the Strait of Hormuz, that are claimed by the United Arab Emirates.
	www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395605629&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer (1143 words)

	A Brief Anecdote Involving a Suspicious Encounter, Aleppo - Experiences, Tourism, and Things to Do - IgoUgo
		He escaped again, bribing the Turkish border guards to let him in.
		For three months he bounced around the Arabic speaking parts of Turkey (Anatakya, Iskanderun) doing odd jobs and getting by.
		He was subsisting on tea and cigarettes, sometimes finding a friendly hotel owner to let him sleep on a couch, but more often sleeping on the street...
	igougo.com /travelcontent/journalEntryFreeForm.aspx?reviewID=1217875 (787 words)

	Paul's Thesis 2 - Pages 166 thru 170
		Kayseri for a period, had established himself sufficiently to be able to buy his
		Ahmet (VK 1), had been a cook in Iskanderun, for 2.5
		Bilal (VT 1) had held a job in a n English company in Iskanderun as night
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /Tvillage/Thesis/StirlingThesis_166.html (2047 words)

	Trivia for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		But then they plunged to death because the pilot did not start the engine when disengaging.
		The Joneses meeting Sallah in Iskanderun's train station.
		Another German tank crew blowing the mouth hole of the canyon.
	us.imdb.com /Trivia?0097576 (2691 words)

	Iskanderun Love, Iskanderun Romance at Matchmaker.com
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	www.matchmaker.com /mm/love/turkey-iskanderun6.htm (247 words)

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