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39°04′44″N 22°08′17″E / 39.07885°N 22.13801°E / 39.07885; 22.13801 Cypaera or Kypaira (Ancient Greek: Κύπαιρα) or Cyphara or Cyphaera (Κύφαιρα) was a town and polis (city-state) 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. 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.

References

  1. Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.13.45.
  2. ^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 32.13.
  3. 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.
  4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cypaera". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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