Alexandretta

How to use Alexandretta in a sentence

• In modern times, the most noted were the pigeons of Aleppo, which served as couriers at Alexandretta and Bagdad.

  The Book of Curiosities | I. Platts

• At the time I speak of, the Turks were not, however, in strong force at or near Alexandretta.

  Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 | Sir Stanley Maude

• Some sort of offensive, whether against Gallipoli or Alexandretta or Haifa, had become perhaps a moral necessity.

  With Manchesters in the East | Gerald B. Hurst

• Alexeieff suggested our transferring troops from Salonika to Alexandretta.

  Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 | Sir Stanley Maude

• Iskanderun (Alexandretta); source of a long inscription cut on both sides of a spheroidal object of unknown origin.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 | Various