Cypaera
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 39.079, 22.138
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient town of Thessaly, Greece
History
Cypaera or Kypaira 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 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 and Makrirrachi (Μακρυρράχη), in the municipal unit of Xyniada.