Granicus (Grani`cus) , a river in Asia Minor, flowing from the slopes of Mount Ida and falling into the Sea of Marmora, where Alexander gained, 334 B.C., the first of the three victories which ended in the overthrow of the Persian empire.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Grangemouth * Grant, Sir Alexander