See also:

• ALEXANDRETTA, or ISKANDERUN (med. Scanderoon)

ALEXANDRETTA, or ISKANDERUN (med. Scanderoon)  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of N . See also:

• SYRIA

Syria, situated in the N.E. See also:

• ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle of the Levantine Mediterranean on the S.E. of the gulf to which it gives a See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title . Pop. about 1o,000, two-thirds Moslem . Iskanderun preserves the name, but probably not the exact site, of See also:

• ALEXANDRIA
• ALEXANDRIA (Arab. Iskenderia)

Alexandria ad Issum, founded by See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander in 333 B.C., about 23 M . S. of the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of his victory, to supersede Myriandrus as See also:

• KEY
• KEY (in O. Eng. tang; the ultimate origin of the word is unknown; it appears only in Old Frisian kei of other Teutonic languages; until the end of the 17th century the pronunciation was kay, as in other words in O. Eng. ending in aeg; cf. daeg, day; clang
• KEY (the phraseograms being indicated by hyphens)
• KEY, SIR ASTLEY COOPER (1821-1888)
• KEY, THOMAS HEWITT (1799-1875)

key of the Syrian See also:

• GATES, HORATIO (1728-1806)

Gates (Beilan Pass) . The importance of the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place ever since has been derived from its relation to this pass, the easiest approach to the open ground of N . Syria of which See also:

• ANTIOCH

Antioch and See also:

• ALEPPO (native Haleb)

Aleppo have been the successive capitals; and this relation has prevailed over the extreme unhealthiness of the site, which lies on marshy deltaic ground, screened by the horseshoe of Elma Dagh from all purifying influences of N. and E. winds . As the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main outlet for the overland See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade from See also:

• BAGDAD, or BAGHDAD

Bagdad and See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, whose importance was See also:

• GREAT

great until the See also:

• ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of the See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian overland route, the place was a great resort, first of Genoese and Venetian merchants, then of those of See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West and See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• EUROPEAN

European nations . The See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• LEVANT

Levant (See also:

• TURKEY

Turkey) See also:

• COMPANY

Company maintained an agency and factory here for 200 years, till 1825, in spite of appalling mortality among its employes . See also:

• ALEXANDRETTA, or ISKANDERUN (med. Scanderoon)

Alexandretta is still the main See also:

• PORT

port for the Aleppo See also:

• DISTRICT

district, to which a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good chaussee leads over the Beilan Pass, and it has a considerable export trade in See also:

• TOBACCO

tobacco, See also:

• SILK

silk, cereals, See also:

• LIQUORICE

liquorice, textiles . The See also:

• HEALTH

health of the place has improved with the draining of the marshes and the See also:

• PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision of a better See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply of See also:

• WATER

water, but still leaves ALEXANDRIA much to be desired . The wealthier inhabitants have summer residences at Beilan near the See also:

• SUMMIT

summit of the pass, See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long a strong-hold of freebooting Dere Beys and the scene of the victory won by See also:

• IBRAHIM

Ibrahim See also:

• PASHA

Pasha in 1832, which opened See also:

• CILICIA

Cilicia to his advance .

There are See also:

• RESIDENT

resident consuls of all the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers, and the port is well served by See also:

• COASTING

coasting steamers under European and See also:

• OTTOMAN

Ottoman flags . The distance by road to Aleppo has been shortened to about 70 m., and See also:

• ANTAKIA

Antakia (Antioch) is about 45 M. distant by a See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the same chaussee . (D . G .