Tisaeum
Τισαῖον
Tisaeum (Τισαῖον: Bardjóia). a lofty mountain on the promontory of Aeantium in Magnesia in Thessaly, at the entrance of the Pagasaean gulf, on which stood a temple of Artemis, and where in B.C. 207 Philip V., son of Demetrius, caused watch-fires to be lighted, in order to obtain immediate knowledge of the movements of the Roman fleet. (Apollon. 1.568; Val. Place. 2.6; Plb. 10.42; Liv. 28.5; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 397.)
T1SCANUS (Jornand. Get. 5), or TYSCA (Ib. 34; Geogr. Rav. 4.14); a river in Thrace, a tributary of the Danube, the modern Theiss.
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.