Cissus (Mygdonia)

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Cissus or Kissos ({{langx|grc|Κισσός}})Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis

[https://books.google.com/books?id=0xyNwS2q7CUC&pg=PA124&dq=Chortiatis+Kissos&sig=vCFMzsAU3PDYXQpw40E61gpx-tU Page 124] By Mogens Herman Hansen, Kurt A. Raaflaub {{ISBN|3-515-06759-0}} was a townA Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography [https://books.google.com/books?id=9y0BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA628&dq=Dictionary+of+Greek+and+Roman+Geography+Cissus Page 628] by W. Smith (1854) of Amphaxitis,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070305072521/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/gazetteer/0114.html Hazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer]}} Macedon, not far from Rhaecelus, which appears to have been the name of the promontory where Aeneas legendarily founded his city.Lycophron 1236. Cissus, along with Aeneia and Chalastra, contributed to the aggrandizement of Thessalonica (315 BC).Strabo Epit. vii. p. 330; Dionys. i. 49. Cissus was the birthplace of Cisseus, a Thracian chief mentioned by Homer.John Cramer, A Geographic and Historical Description of Ancient Greece (Clarendon Press, 1828), page [https://books.google.com/books?id=Lpvn3A8ySe8C&pg=PA238&dq=Cissus+Cisseus 238].

There was also a mountain of the same name nearby, now called Mount Chortiatis, on which were found the lion, ounce, lynx, panther, and bear.Xenophon De Venat. xi. 1.

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