Cyrrhus (Macedonia)

Cyrrhus
Κύρρος
Prehistoric gold ornament from Cyrrhus.
Coordinates40°50′40″N 22°18′09″E / 40.84453°N 22.3026°E / 40.84453; 22.3026

Cyrrhus or Kyrros (Ancient Greek: Κύρρος), also known as Cyrius or Kyrius (Κύριος), was a town in ancient Macedonia. Sitalces penetrated into Macedonia to the left of Cyrrhus and Pella.

It is located near the modern Aravissos.

The other Cyrrhus, a now-ruined city on the Euphrates, was named after it by Seleucus I Nicator, a Macedonian general with Alexander the Great. It is not known which Andronicus of Cyrrhus came from.

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