Cresium
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.854, 24.509
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient settlement on Skyros
History
Cresium or Kresion, also known as Ctesium or Ktesion, was an ancient port town on the island of Skyros. Plutarch mentions the town as the location where Thessalian merchants were robbed of their merchandise, the robbery led, ultimately, to the intervention of Cimon in Skyros.