Cyrrhus (Macedonia)

Cyrrhus
Κύρρος
Prehistoric gold ornament from Cyrrhus.
Coordinates40°50′40″N 22°18′09″E / 40.84453°N 22.3026°E / 40.84453; 22.3026

Cyrrhus or Kyrros (Ancient Greek: Κύρρος),[1] also known as Cyrius or Kyrius (Κύριος),[2] was a town in ancient Macedonia. Sitalces penetrated into Macedonia to the left of Cyrrhus and Pella.[1]

It is located near the modern Aravissos.[3][4]

The other Cyrrhus, a now-ruined city on the Euphrates, was named after it by Seleucus I Nicator, a Macedonian general with Alexander the Great. It is not known which Andronicus of Cyrrhus came from.

  1. ^ a b Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 2.100.
  2. ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.13.39.
  3. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  4. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.