Cressa (Thrace)

Cressa or Kressa (Ancient Greek: Κρῆσσα) was an ancient Greek[1] city located in ancient Thrace, on the Thracian Chersonesus. It is cited in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, in the second position of its recitation of the towns of the Thracian Chersonesus, along with Aegospotami, Cressa, Crithote and Pactya.[2] It may be the same town cited by Pliny the Elder as Crissa on the Propontis.[3][1]

Its site is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast of Aigospotamoi, Turkey.[4][5]

See also

References
  1. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thracian Chersonese". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 907. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  2. Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax 67.
  3. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.48.
  4. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 51, and directory notes accompanying.
  5. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.


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