, 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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