Iskenderun
İskenderun, also known as Alexandretta, is a city in Hatay, Mediterranean Turkey. It's a major port on the Mediterranean Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 247,000 residents
- Description: district and city in Hatay, Turkey
- Also known as: “Iskandariyah”, “İskenderon”, “İskenderun”, “Myriandrus”, and “Scanderoon”
- Historically known as: “Alexandretta”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cathedral of the Annunciation, İskenderun.
Cathedral of the Annunciation, İskenderun
Church
The Cathedral of the Annunciation, also known as the Alexandrian Catholic Church is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and functioning as the cathedral of the Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia in İskenderun in the Eurasian country of Turkey.
Iskenderun
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Hatay, Mediterranean Turkey, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.5902° or 36° 35′ 25″ northLongitude
36.171° or 36° 10′ 16″ eastPopulation
247,000Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
TR ISKOpen location code
8G8RH5RC+3COpenStreetMap ID
node 14644309OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Wu Chinese—“Iskenderun” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀλεξανδρέττα”
- Arabic: “إسكندرونة”
- Arabic: “الإسكندرونة”
- Arabic: “الإِسْكَنْدَرُونَةُ”
- Armenian: “Ալեքսանդրեթ”
- Armenian: “Ալեքսանդրետտա”
- Armenian: “Իսքենդերուն”
- Asturian: “İskenderun (distritu)”
- Asturian: “İskenderun”
- Azerbaijani: “İskəndərun”
- Basque: “Alexandreta”
- Basque: “İskenderun”
- Belarusian: “Іскендэрун”
- Breton: “İskenderun”
- Bulgarian: “Искендерун”
- Catalan: “Alexandreta”
- Catalan: “Alexandria de Cilícia”
- Catalan: “Alexandria de l’Issos”
- Catalan: “İskenderun”
- Cebuano: “İskenderun”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەسکەندەروون”
- Chechen: “Искендерун”
- Chinese: “İskenderun”
- Chinese: “伊斯肯德伦”
- Chinese: “伊斯肯德倫”
- Croatian: “Iskenderun”
- Czech: “Alexandretta”
- Czech: “İskenderun”
- Dutch: “Alexandretta”
- Dutch: “Alexandrette”
- Dutch: “iskenderun (stad)”
- Dutch: “İskenderun”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اسكندرون”
- Esperanto: “İskenderun”
- Finnish: “İskenderun”
- French: “Alexandrette”
- French: “Iskenderun”
- French: “İskenderun”
- Gagauz: “İskenderun”
- Galician: “Alexandreta”
- Galician: “Iskenderun”
- Georgian: “ისქენდერუნი”
- German: “Iskanderun”
- German: “İskenderun”
- German: “Alexandretta” (historical)
- Gilaki: “اسکندرون”
- Greek: “Αλεξανδρέττα”
- Hebrew: “איסכנדרון”
- Hungarian: “İskenderun”
- Ido: “İskenderun”
- Indonesian: “İskenderun”
- Irish: “İskenderun”
- Italian: “Alessandretta”
- Italian: “Alessandria di Isso”
- Italian: “Iskanderun”
- Italian: “Iskenderon”
- Italian: “İskenderun”
- Japanese: “イスケンデルン”
- Kazakh: “Ïskenderwn”
- Kazakh: “Искендерун”
- Kazakh: “ىيسكەندەرۋن”
- Korean: “이스켄데룬”
- Kurdish: “Îskenderûn”
- Kurdish: “ئیسکەندەروون”
- Latin: “Alexandria ad Issum”
- Latvian: “Aleksandreta”
- Latvian: “Iskenderuna”
- Lithuanian: “Iskenderun”
- Lithuanian: “Iskenderunas”
- Lithuanian: “Iskenderūnas”
- Lombard: “Alesandrèta”
- Lombard: “Iskenderun”
- Lombard: “Lisandreta”
- Lombard: “Lisandrèta”
- Lombard: “Lissandretta”
- Malay: “İskenderun”
- Mazanderani: “اسکندرون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “İskenderun”
- Minangkabau: “İskenderun”
- Moksha: “Искэндэрун”
- Northern Luri: “اسکندرون”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alexandretta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alexandrette”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “İskenderun”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alexandretta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “İskenderun”
- Norwegian: “İskenderun”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Alexandreta”
- Ossetian: “Искендерун”
- Persian: “اسکندرون”
- Polish: “Aleksandretta”
- Polish: “Iskenderum”
- Polish: “İskenderun”
- Portuguese: “Alexandreta”
- Portuguese: “Alexandretta”
- Portuguese: “İskenderun”
- Pushto: “اسکندرون”
- Romanian: “Alexandretta”
- Romanian: “İskenderun”
- Russian: “Александретта”
- Russian: “Искендерон”
- Russian: “Искендерун”
- Scots: “İskenderun”
- Serbian: “Iskenderun”
- Serbian: “İskenderun”
- Serbian: “Искендерум”
- Serbian: “Искендерун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “İskenderun”
- Silesian: “İskenderun”
- Slovenian: “Aleksandreta”
- Slovenian: “Iskenderun”
- South Azerbaijani: “اسکندرون”
- Spanish: “Alejandreta”
- Spanish: “Alejandria de Cilicia”
- Spanish: “Alejandría de Cilicia”
- Spanish: “Iskenderun”
- Spanish: “İskenderun”
- Swahili: “İskenderun”
- Swedish: “‘Alexandrétta”
- Swedish: “Al Iskandarun”
- Swedish: “Al-Iskandariya”
- Swedish: “Al-ʼIskandarūn”
- Swedish: “Alexandretta”
- Swedish: “Alexandrétta”
- Swedish: “Alexandrette”
- Swedish: “Alexandria ad Issum”
- Swedish: “Iskandarun”
- Swedish: “Iskanderun”
- Swedish: “Iskenderiye”
- Swedish: “Iskenderum”
- Swedish: “İskenderun”
- Swedish: “Scanderoon”
- Swedish: “Skanderun”
- Tajik: “Искандарун”
- Tajik: “Искандарӯн”
- Tatar: “Искендерун”
- Thai: “อิสเคนเดรุน”
- Turkish: “Alexandretta”
- Turkish: “Alexandrette”
- Turkish: “İskenderun”
- Ukrainian: “Іскендерун”
- Urdu: “اسکندرون”
- Uzbek: “Aleksandretta”
- Uzbek: “Iskandarun”
- Vietnamese: “İskenderun”
- Waray (Philippines): “İskenderun”
- Western Armenian: “Ալեքսանտրէթ”
- Western Mari: “Искендерун”
- Western Panjabi: “اسکندرون”
- Wu Chinese: “伊斯肯德伦”
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