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What does Granicus mean?

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Proper noun
  1. a river in north-western Anatolia, where Alexander the Great defeated the forces of the Persian Empire under Darius III
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The city of Agoura Hills has contracted with San Francisco-based Granicus Inc.
The name of the Persian general who commanded at the battle of the Granicus was Memnon.
The opinion of my divinity assisted my arms and subdued all nations before me, from the Granicus to the Ganges.
In spite of the size of the Persian army, which was much larger than his own, Alexander won a complete victory at the Granicus.
I find but little real fighting on horseback in all antiquity like that of Alexander the Great at the passage of the Granicus.
The Persian satrap was unable to stop him at the first major battle at the Granicus River.

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