territory, the city is attested in Ancient Greek as ????? and in Latin as Risinium. The toponym has been compared with , meaning 'flow', 'stream', deriving from Proto-Indo-European (H)reg- 'flow', whence in turn meaning 'river', 'stream', etc.

History

Herodian (2nd century A.D.) mentions that Rhizon takes its name from Rizon, son of Cadmus

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