Cissa may refer to :
; Places and jurisdictions
* Cissa, Roman name of present
Caska on the island of Pag, Croatia
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Cissa (titular see)
Novalja () is a town in the north of the island of Pag in the Croatian part of Adriatic Sea. In recent times, Novalja has become famous because of the Zrće Beach.
History
The earliest settlers on the island were an Illyrian tribe that came to ...
, a former Catholic diocese with see there, now a Latin titular see
* Cissa, alternate name of ancient
Cressa (Thrace)
Cressa or Kressa ( grc, Κρῆσσα) was an ancient Greek city located in ancient Thrace, on the Thracian Chersonesus. It is cited in the ''Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax'', in the second position of its recitation of the towns of the Thracian Cherson ...
* Cissa, alternate name of ancient
Tarraco
Tarraco is the ancient name of the current city of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). It was the oldest Roman settlement on the Iberian Peninsula. It became the capital of the Roman province of Hispania Citerior during the period of the Roman Republic ...
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Battle of Cissa
The Battle of Cissa was part of the Second Punic War. It was fought in the fall of 218 BC, near the Celtic town of Tarraco in north-eastern Iberia. A Roman army under Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus defeated an outnumbered Carthaginian army un ...
, 218 BC, in the Second Punic War
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Cissa, Burkina Faso
Cissa is a village in the Bilanga Department of Gnagna Province in eastern Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Ma ...
, a village in Burkina Faso
; Persons
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Cissa of Crowland
Cissa of Crowland was a saint in the medieval Fenlands. He was the successor of Guthlac as abbot of Crowland, and is mentioned in Felix' ''Vita Guthlaci''.Blair, "Handlist", p. 521 According to the ''Crowland Chronicle'' his tomb was next to Guthl ...
, 8th-century saint
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Cissa of Sussex
Cissa () was part of an Anglo-Saxon invasion force that landed in three ships at a place called Cymensora in AD 477. The invasion was led by Cissa's father Ælle and included his two brothers. They are said to have fought against the local Brito ...
, a (possibly mythological) king of the South Saxons in the 6th century
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Cissa (West Saxon)
Cissa was reported as the viceroy of king Centwine of Wessex (reigned c. 676–686). Cissa is sometimes said to have himself been a king of Wessex, but does not feature in the king lists or genealogies. He is said to have constructed Chisbury ...
, possibly viceroy of king Centwine of Wessex
; Other
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''Cissa'' (bird), a genus of magpies
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