issos Harabeleri

Mediocre, nice but keep your expectations low when you go to see it

The road is bad. But that dust is worth the soil. Aqueducts are impressively still standing.

İssos has witnessed different myths for thousands of years and is located in the eastern part of the Mediterranean and therefore within the borders of Erzin. It is possible to come across the abandoned ruins of the city at Istasyon Location, 7 km from Erzin. Isos, which is the center that connects Mesopotamia to Greek culture and Anatolia to Islamic Countries; It was home to the Byzantine, Late Hittite, Selaukos, Persian and Ottoman Empires. Although it has a very important regional position, it is experiencing its dysfunctional days today, and quietly. In terms of its formation, its architectural feature is 1-2 km within the ruins of Issos, which has a feature that pioneers the times after it. There are water channels that are 7-8 m in length and 7-8 m in height and still survive. It is the product of the project of supplying water to the Mediterranean from the foothills of the Amanos to Genoese sailors, this water channel. Persian king III in 333 BC, which resulted in the victories of Alexander the Great. The region, which witnessed a great war with Darius, lived its original golden age in the Roman period and gained a new identity with the zoning activities in this time. A significant part of the remains that tried to survive remained under the ground for several meters and they were waiting for a serious excavation work, but the volcanic structure of the land, natural damages such as earthquake and sand coming from the sea, as well as the roads and surrounding settlements passing through these valuable remains, the major blows. Although the region was declared as a protected area, looting could not be prevented. Theater, sports complex, colonnaded streets, baths, temples, water cisterns, cemeteries and pier on the beach are living the sadness of being abandoned to their fate today. In the ongoing life, we are actually unaware of our attitude towards history and art within nature that limits us by falling behind memories. When we consider all the development states of the civilization level we want to come to, we cannot integrate our consciousness, which will work forward, with the past, and we witness the progress of the time we have difficulty in perceiving.

It is still under excavation and visiting is not allowed.

It has an excellent historical texture and nature, especially in spring, it should be visited among orange flowers. above-ground parts of the ancient city very little excavation work continues. One of the rarest artifacts exhibited in the Antakya archeology museum, the world's largest mosaic museum, the animal goddess artemis mosaic was found here in the world. You can start visiting this section of the error from Hatay's first district, which cedarwood.

An interesting old aqueduct in the middle of fields and orchards. We thought that was the place of Issos where Alexander defeated the Persians. We are not sure if it was there because there are incorrect data on the map of all kinds. Someone is putting misinformation.

Some were excavated. We couldn't see all the way. It's on the road. Transportation is easy. Although there is not much to see, it is worth going.

It is not possible to see much of the ruins apart from the aqueduct, but considering its place in the history, being here makes you feel different.