-
powerful city-state of
ancient Greece which gave its name to the
Crissaean plain and the
Crissaean Gulf and lies in the
southwestern foothills of
Mount Parn****us...
- that the road to
Delphi from the
Hippodrome on the
coast led over the
Crissaean hill,
leaves no
doubt of the true
position of Crissa,
since the road from...
-
known to
enter the
Corinthian gulf occasionally.
Alkyonides Gulf, east
Crissaean Gulf (Gulf of Crissa),
north Bay of Antikyra,
north Dombraina (Domvrena)...
- 315.174 km2. It lies on the
northern edge of the
olive forest of the
Crissaean plain,
between two mountains,
Giona to the west and Parn****us to the east...
- end of a
projecting spur of
Mount Parn****us.
Crissa gave name to the
Crissaean Gulf, and its
ruins may
still be seen at a
short distance from the modern...
- Locris, on the coast, was
close to the
Phocian town of Crissa; and the
Crissaean gulf
washed on its
western side the Locrian, and on its
eastern the Phocian...
-
Sacred War (in 346 BCE), and
never again restored.
Strabo places it on the
Crissaean Gulf (in the
sense of the Gulf of Corinth), at the
distance of 160 stadia...
- of Desfina. It is
separated from
Delphi by
Mount Cirphis and from the
Crissaean Gulf by the Opus
peninsula (Latin: Opus Promontorium). The muni****l unit...
- town of the
Ozolian Locrians,
situated at the
western entrance of the
Crissaean Gulf.
Polybius says that it is
opposite to
Aegeira in Achaea. Thucydides...
-
frontiers of Boeotia,
situated upon a hill, and
distant 7
stadia from the
Crissaean Gulf, 80
stadia from Thisbe, and 100 from Anticyra. It was
founded by...
