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[Kissa/Cissis]

town

Ancient

Kissa/Cissis

Ancient
Kissa/Cissis
Type
town

Kissa/Cissis

Pleiades ID: 246452

settlement

Description

Cn. Scipio defeated Hanno somewhere near Kissa in 218 BCE, before capturing the town by assault.

Evidence

  • Liv. (OCT: PHI) 21.60.7.4
    Titus Livius. Titi Livi Ab Urbe Condita. 5 vols. Clarendon: Oxford U.P, 1908. https://latin.packhum.org/loc/914/1/0#0.
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  • Polyb. (Büttner-Wobst: Perseus) 3.76
    Polybius. Polybiou Historiai = Polybii Historiae. Edited by Theodor Büttner-Wobst and Ludwig August Dindorf. 4 vols. Lipsiae: B.G. Teubneri, 1882. http://data.perseus.org/texts/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0543.tlg001.
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See Further

  • BAtlas 25 G4 Kissa/Cissis
    Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43970336.
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  • Tovar 1989 435
    Tovar, Antonio. Tarraconensis. Strasbourg: Heitz, 1989.
  • TIR Tarraco 62
    Cepas, Adela, Joseph Guitart i Duran, and Guillermo Fatás Cabeza. Tabula Imperii Romani: K/J-31 Pyrénées Orientales/Baleares: Tarraco - Baliares. Tabula Imperii Romani, K/J-31. Pyreneés Orientales-Baleares. Madrid: Ministerio de Fomento: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura CSIC : Institut D’Estudis Catalans, 1997. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40415507.
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See Also

  • Wikipedia (English) Tarraco (Tarragona)
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Tarraco (Tarragona).
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  • Wikipedia (English) Battle of Cissa
    Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Edit. Wikimedia Foundation, 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org.
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Names

grc la

Creators & Contributors

Citation Information

H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, and R.W. Mathisen. "Kissa/Cissis" Pleiades, 05 May 2025. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246452.
Last modified: 2025-05-05T19:47:57Z

Location

41.088474, 1.175316