Alexandretta

Alexandretta, which is near the head waters of the Euphrates River, a proposed route to India by the Persian Gulf, of which I may have something to say another day.

Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing Oliver Optic 1859

The city is now called Alexandretta (by the Turks,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

I was looking today at the various Arab channels, including the Saudi-funded ones, and they could not escape the reality: that today was a Day of Popular Wrath in the Arab world. 100,000 demonstrators in Alexandretta, and tens of thousands defied the ban on demonstrations in Algeria, and people in Kuwait ignored their divisons for a day.

Friday, January 09, 2009 As'ad 2009

The shameless Stephen of Blois, head of our army, whom our chieftains had elected their leader before the fall of Antioch, under the pretense of an illness basely retired to another camp called Alexandretta.

De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Battle for Antioch in the First Crusade (1097-98) according to Peter Tudebode 2009

"The two districts of Mersina and Alexandretta and portions of Syria lying to the west of the districts of Damascus, Homs, Hama and Aleppo cannot be said to be purely Arab, and should be excluded from the limits demanded." and some other minor concessions.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

For a second, I thought Arab armies reconquered Andalusia, Palestine, and Alexandretta.

Thursday, January 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

They were supposed to have lived on the Bay of Alexandretta in Cilicia, in what is now Turkey.

Sts. Cosmas and Damian, martyrs Argent 2006

The road has been rendered unsafe, especially in later times, by the depredations of Kutshuk Ali, a savage rebel, who has established himself in the mountains to the north of Alexandretta.

Travels in Nubia 2004

Alexandretta, of the Archipelagus, by the Turkes now called The white sea, euen to the walles of Constantinople: the voyages ouer land, and by riuer through Aleppo, Birrha, Babylon and Balsara, and downe the Persian gulfe to Ormuz, and thence by the Ocean sea to

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

The fourth of May wee departed, and the one and twentie wee arriued at Alexandretta in Cilicia in the very bottome of the Mediterrane sea, a roade some

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003