Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CISAMUS

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CISAMUS (Κίσαμος).

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The port of Aptera in Crete. [APTERA]

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Another town of this name appears in the Peutinger Tables 32 M. P. to the W. of Cydonia (comp. Ptol. 3.17.8; Stadiasm. § 322, 323, Hierocl.; Cisamum, Plin. Nat. 4.12). In and about Kísamo Kastéli are 14 or 15 fragments of shafts of marble and granite columns, an Ionic capital, and remains of walls, indicating that there once existed upon this site a flourishing and important city. (Pashley, Trav. vol. ii. p. 43.) [E.B.J]

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, illustrated by numerous engravings on wood. William Smith, LLD. London. Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854.

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