Scanderoon

Gulf of Iskanderun, sometimes called Scanderoon, is the north-east corner of the Mediterranean.

Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing Oliver Optic 1859

Issus of Cilicia, now a port-village on the Gulf of Scanderoon.

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Several Indiamen have been wrecked here, and about fifty years since, a quantity of Spanish dollars, date 1625, were found amongst the sand, when the tide had receded unusually far, supposed to be part of the cargo of the "Scanderoon galley" lost on this coast nearly two centuries ago.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 Various

Whereupon the Marshal, 'to beguile the time, and give employment to the fiery spirits on board his squadron' (says a later chronicler) 'ran down at a venture to the Syrian city of Scanderoon, which place he carried by assault and plundered.'

The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

Digby as a physicist, that he is able to illustrate some theory of acoustics in his Treatise of Bodies by instancing the effect of his guns in a sea-fight off Scanderoon.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

But this was nothing but what the necessity of affairs required, and the merchants at Leghorn and Naples having notice given them, sent again from thence to take care of the effects which were particularly consigned to those ports, and to bring back in other ships such as were improper for the markets at Smyrna and Scanderoon.

A Journal Of The Plague Year Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1935

Sir Kenelm Digby, a courtier of Charles and James who won the sea-fight of Scanderoon, was a model Englishman in his day.

V. English Traits. Ability 1909

Then they pushed on toward the farther East, and while waiting for a vessel to sail from the port of Ayas, on the Gulf of Scanderoon, then the starting-point for the

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Scanderoon, he fell sick of the plague that was raging there, and died, in the course of January 1684, in company with all the other officers of his ship.

Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

They tell me Dizzy is negotiating another little purchase of Seleucia and Scanderoon.

Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. John Knox Laughton 1872