Ceressus
Κερησσός
Ceressus (Κερησσός), a strong fortress in Boeotia, in the neighbourhood of, and belonging to Thespiae. The inhabitants of Ceressus retreated to this fortress after the battle of Leuctra. It was probably situated at Paleopananhía. (Paus. 9.14.2; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. pp. 490, 450.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.