Cypaera or Kypaira (Ancient Greek: Κύπαιρα)[1] or Cyphara or Cyphaera[2] (Κύφαιρα) was a town and polis (city-state)[3] 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 (198 BC) allowed the Aetolians to occupy much of Thessaly, and these latter, after sacking Xyniae took Cypaera.[2] It has been located at a site called Palaia Yannitsou within the territory between the modern villages of Kaitsa (Λουτρά Καΐτσης) and Makrirrachi (Μακρυρράχη), in the municipal unit of Xyniada.[4]

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  3. ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 714. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
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