39°04′44″N 22°08′17″E / 39.07885°N 22.13801°E Cypaera or Kypaira (Ancient Greek: Κύπαιρα)[1] or Cyphara or Cyphaera[2] (Κύφαιρα) was a town and polis (city-state)[3] of Ancient Thessaly, in the southern part of the district Thessaliotis or Phthiotis, near the confines of Dolopia. Livy relates that the retreat of Philip V of Macedon after the Battle of the Aous (198 BC) allowed the Aetolians to occupy much of Thessaly, and these latter, after sacking Xyniae took Cypaera.[2] It has been located at a site called Palaia Yannitsou within the territory between the modern villages of Kaitsa (Λουτρά Καΐτσης) and Makrirrachi (Μακρυρράχη), in the municipal unit of Xyniada.[4]
References
edit- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.13.45.
- ^ a b Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 32.13.
- ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 714. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cypaera". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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