Cissians

Cissians Cissians, at the head of the Persian Gulf

• tributaries of Persia: Hdt. 3.91
• Cissian gates of Babylon: Hdt. 3.155, Hdt. 3.158
• the country on Aristagoras' map of Asia: Hdt. 5.49
• on the "royal road,": Hdt. 5.52
• Cissian fighters at Thermopylae: Hdt. 7.210