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Cissa may refer to : ; Places and jurisdictions * Cissa, Roman name of present Caska on the island of Pag, Croatia ** Cissa (titular see), a former Catholic diocese with see there, now a Latin titular see * Cissa, alternate name of ancient Cressa (Thrace) * 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 Hispania Tarraconensis following the latter's creation during the Roman Empire ...
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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 town of Tarraco in north-eastern Iberia. A Roman army under Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus defeated an outnumbered Carthaginian army under Ha ...
, 218 BC, in the Second Punic War * Cissa, Burkina Faso, a village in Burkina Faso ; Persons *
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 Gu ...
, 8th-century saint *
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 * Cissa (West Saxon), possibly viceroy of king Centwine of Wessex ; Other * ''Cissa'' (bird), a genus of magpies {{disambig, hndis, geo