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Granicus

noun
1.
The battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians (334 BC).  Synonym: Battle of Granicus River.





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... group of twenty-five equestrian statues of the Macedonian horses that fell at the passage of the Granicus, and of this group the horses now at Venice formed a part. They were carried from Alexandria to Rome by Augustus, who placed them on his triumphal arch. Afterward Nero, Domitian and Trajan, successfully transferred them to arches of ...
— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 • Various


Words linked to "Granicus" :   Asia Minor, Anatolia, pitched battle


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