Mycale: promontory in western Turkey, famous for a battle in 479 BCE in which the allied Greeks defeated the navy of the Achaemenid king Xerxes, modern Dilek Daği.
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Napata: name of a group of settlements on the Middle Nile, capital of a Nubian kingdom, flourishing in the first half of the first millennium BCE, also known as Kush.Napata
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Neo-Hittites or Syro-Hittites: modern name for the successor states of the Hittite Empire, which had desintegrated in the early twelfth century BCE.Demise of the Hittite Empire
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Nile (Egyptian Iteru, Greek Νεῖλος, Latin Nilus): one of the largest rivers of the world, dominant natural feature of Nubia and Egypt, famous for its annual flooding.The river
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Nisaia (Old Persian Nisâya, "settlement"): district in western Media.
The Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)
The Nisaean or Nesaean plain, which…
Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae: fifth-century regionary, i.e., a list of monuments and civil servants in the regions of a city (Constantinople).The Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae belongs to the ancient genre of "regionaries": a list of monuments and civil servants in the regions…
Nijmegen: city in the Netherlands, where several Roman settlements have been discovered.To illustrate the pages on Nijmegen, here are some maps. The river Waal and the canal north of the ice-pushed ridge are shown as they are today.
Red: civil settlements
Blue:…
Nubia: name of the country south of Egypt, more or less identical to modern Sudan. In ancient times, there were three Nubian kingdoms, which are named after their capitals: Kerma, Napata, and Meroe. Other names are Kush and Ethiopia.
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Numidia: ancient country to the west of the territories of Carthage, more or less modern Algeria. There were two main units, named after the Massylians and the Masaeisylians, which are more or less identical to the Roman provinces Numidia and…