Cissus or Kissos ()Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis Page 124 By Mogens Herman Hansen, Kurt A. Raaflaub was a townA Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography Page 628 by W. Smith (1854) of Amphaxitis, Macedon, not far from Rhaecelus, which appears to have been the name of the promontory where Aeneas legendarily founded his city.Lycophron 1236. Cissus, along with Aeneia and Chalastra, contributed to the aggrandizement of Thessalonica (315 BC).Strabo Epit. vii. p. 330; Dionys. i. 49. Cissus was the birthplace of Cisseus, a Thracian chief mentioned by Homer.John Cramer, A Geographic and Historical Description of Ancient Greece (Clarendon Press, 1828), page 238.
There was also a mountain of the same name nearby, now called Mount Chortiatis, on which were found the lion, ounce, lynx, panther, and bear.Xenophon De Venat. xi. 1.
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