Carissa (Spain) Explained

Carisa or Carissa (Greek: Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Κάρισσα, Ptol. ii. 4, § 13) was an ancient city of the Turdetani in Hispania Baetica, in the conventus of Gades, having the civitas Latina. Several of its coins are extant.^[1] Pliny refers to the city as Carissa cognomine Aurelia.^[2] The city is usually associated, due to inscriptions, with Carixa, near Bornos, in the Province of Cadiz.

Notes and References

1. Caro, Ant. Hisp. iii. 19; Morales, Antig. p. 8, b.; Florez, Med. de Esp. vol. i. p. 285, vol. iii. p. 30; Théodore Edme Mionnet, vol. i. p. 8, Suppl. vol. i. p. 16; Sestini, pp. 20, 38; Eckhel, vol. i. p. 16.
2. Pliny iii. l. s. 3.