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, a river of Gallia Belgica, which runs north-east into the west side of the Rhine; now the _Nahe_. NAVARIA, now _Novara_, a city of Milan. NEMETES, a people originally of Germany, removed to the diocese of _Spire_, on the Rhine. NICEPHORUS, a river of Asia that washes the walls of _Tigranocerta_, and runs into the _Tigris_; _D'Anville_ says, now called _Khabour_. NICOPOLIS: there were several towns of this name, viz. in Egypt, Armenia, Bithynia, on the Euxine, &c. A town of the same name was built by Augustus, on the coast of Epirus, as a monument of his victory at Actium. NINOS, the capital of _Assyria_; called also _Nineve_. NISIBIS, a city of Mesopotamia, at this day called _Nesibin_. NOLA, a city of Campania, on the north-east of Vesuvius. At this place Augustus breathed his last: it retains its old name to this day. NORICUM, a Roman province, bounded by the Danube on the north, by the _Alpes Noricae_ on the south, by Pannonia on the east, and Vindelicia on the west; now containing a great part of Austria, Tyrol, Bavaria, &c. NOVESIUM, a town of the Ubii in Gallia Belgica; now _Nuys_, on the west side of the Rhine, in the electorate of _Cologne_. NUCERIA, a city of Campania; now _Nocera_. NUMIDIA, a celebrated kingdom of Africa, bordering on Mauritania, and bounded to the north by the Mediterranean; now _Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli_, &c. the eastern part of the kingdom of _Algiers_. Syphax was king of one part, and Masinissa of the other. O. OCRICULUM, a town of Umbria, near the confluence of the Nar and the Tiber; now _Otricoli_, in the duchy of _Spoletto_. ODRYSAE, a people situated in the western part of Thrace, how a province of European Turkey. OEENSES, a people of Africa, who occupied the country between the two Syrtes on the Mediterranean. Their city was called _Oea_, now _Tripoli_. OPITERGIUM, now _Oderzo_, in the territory of Venice. ORDOVICES, a people who inhabited what we now call _Flintshire, Denbighshire, Carnarvon_, and _Merionethshire_, in North Wales. OSTIA, formerly a town of note, at the mouth of the Tiber (on the south side), whence its name; at this day it lies in ruins. P. PADUS, anciently called _Eridanus_ by the Greeks, famous for the fable of Phaeton; it receives several rivers from the Alps and Apennine, and, running from west to east, discharges itself into the Adriatic. It is now called the Po. PAGIDA, a river in Numidia; its modern name i
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