Cypsela
Κύψελα
Cypsela (Κύψελα), a town on the river Hebrus in Thrace, which was once an important place on the via Egnatia. It is the same as the modern Ipsala, or Chapsylar, near Keshan. (Strab. pp. 322, 329; Ptol. 3.11.13; Steph. Byz. s.v. Ann. Comn. vii. p. 204; Liv. 31.16, 38.40, 41; Mela, 2.2; Plin. Nat. 4.18.)
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.