Cithas

Cithas or Kithas (Ancient Greek: Κίθας) was a town of Chalcidice in ancient Macedonia. It belonged to the Delian League since it appears in the tribute registry of Athens for the year 434/3 BCE, where it paid a phoros of 3000 drachmas jointly with the cities of Tinde, Gigonus, Smila and Lisaea.^[1]

The location of its site is disputed: the editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World treat Cithas as located at the site of Cissus;^[2] whereas, Mogens Herman Hansen and his colleagues treat Cithas as unlocated.^[3]

Accepting the identification, its site is located in the western Chalcidice.^[2][4]

References

1. IG I³ 278, col. VI,30.
2. 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.
3. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thrace from Axios to Strymon". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 830. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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