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Neapolis — by E.M. Meyers — last modified Oct 19, 2023 09:32 AM

After the sacking of Jerusalem, Vespasian settled Roman veterans on a new town site located between Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Ebal. The new Roman colony was built on the site of Mabartha.

Neapolis — by E.N. Borza — last modified Jun 07, 2018 05:21 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 51 B4 Neapolis

Neapolis (Kavalla) — by E.N. Borza — last modified Apr 18, 2023 12:15 PM

An ancient port city on the coast of Thrace, Neapolis (modern Kavalla in the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace in Greece) was probably founded from Thasos in the seventh century CE. It served as the port for Philippi in Hellenistic and Roman times, and was refortified by Justinian in the sixth century CE.

Neapolis/Lepcis Magna — by D.J. Mattingly — last modified Jan 15, 2023 03:58 PM

Originally a Phoenician colony founded ca. 1100 B.C., Lepcis Magna became a prominent Roman city and birthplace of the emperor Septimius Severus.

Neapolis/Theodosias — by D. Rupp — last modified Feb 18, 2023 11:47 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 72 C3 Neapolis/Theodosias

Nemyriv Hillfort — by Gabriel Mckee — last modified Nov 13, 2019 01:14 PM

Scythian hillfort site located on the Southern Bug River near the modern town of Nemyriv. The site was primarily inhabited in the early Iron Age (8th-6th centuries BCE), with additional deposits from the Chalcolithic Age, the Bronze Age, the La Tene period, the Chernyakov Culture, and the Middle Ages.

Neokhorion — by C. Foss — last modified Jan 15, 2022 03:03 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 61 D2 Neokhorion

Neonteichos — by C. Foss — last modified Jun 20, 2023 01:39 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 56 E4 Neonteichos

Nepet — by W.V. Harris — last modified Jul 27, 2024 09:10 PM

Nepet had become a Roman town before 396 B.C. when Livy dubs it, along with Sutrium, as one of the "keys" to Etruria. It became a Roman colony in 383 B.C. and a municipium after the Social War.

Neretum — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Dec 02, 2021 09:10 PM

An ancient settlement of the Messapii in Apulia captured by the Romans in 269 BC. The Trajanic extension of the Via Appia ran through the site.

Nicaea — by S. Loseby — last modified Jun 07, 2018 03:36 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 16 D2 Nicaea

Nicotera — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Jan 28, 2024 11:01 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 46 C4 Nicotera

Nimrud — by M. Roaf — last modified Jun 15, 2023 08:48 AM

In the ninth century BC, Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883-859 BC) built himself a new administrative center. Kalhu (biblical Calah) — modern Nimrud, a site identified as Larissa, a city mentioned in Xenophon’s Anabasis — became the capital of the Assyrian Empire, replacing Ashur, which had served as Assyria’s capital since the third millennium BC. The city — which is located twenty miles south of the modern Mosul and which occupied a strategic position six miles north of the point where the Tigris River meets the Greater/Upper Zab — served as Assyria’s capital until the reign of Sargon II (r. 721–705 BC). Although Kalhu never again became the primary residence of Assyria’s kings, that city remained a vital administrative, military, and religious center until the fall of the Assyrian Empire.

Nina — by A. Hausleiter — last modified Jun 14, 2023 01:34 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 93 C2 Nina

Nineveh/Ninos — by M. Roaf — last modified Jun 15, 2023 08:50 AM

This important Mesopotamian city flanks the eastern edge of the Tigris flood plain, opposite modern Mosul, of which it is now a suburb. From the third millennium B.C. onwards, Nineveh was the most important religious center of the goddess Ištar in the area that would become the Assyrian heartland. Starting in the Middle Assyrian period, the city came under the authority of the kings of Assyria, who often sponsored large-scale building activities there. However, it was not until 704 B.C. that Nineveh became the administrative capital of Assyria, when the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib moved the royal family and court there and transformed the city into a thriving imperial metropolis. Nineveh remained Assyria’s capital until 612 B.C., when it was captured and destroyed by a Babylonian-Median collation led by Nabopolassar and Cyaxares. The visible remains of the (7th-century) Assyrian city include the citadel mound Kuyunjik, the smaller mound of Nebi Yunus, and the twelve-kilometer-long city wall.

Nippur/Nufar/‘Hippareni’ — by A. Hausleiter — last modified Jan 25, 2024 02:03 PM

An ancient Sumerian settlement whose ruins lie at Nuffar in modern Iraq. Under various names it persisted as a settlement throughout the periods of Greek and Roman engagement in Babylonia.

Nisaia — by G. Reger — last modified Apr 15, 2024 04:26 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 E2 Nisaia

Nisyros (settlement) — by C. Foss — last modified Mar 21, 2023 11:23 AM

The eponymous settlement of the volcanic island of Nisyros in the Aegean Sea.

Noai? — by R.J.A. Wilson — last modified Apr 23, 2022 07:19 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 F3 Noai?

Noddule nuragic complex — by Jeffrey Becker — last modified Dec 23, 2020 04:17 AM

A multi-period settlement site with occupation stretching from ca. 4000 B.C. to the fourth century A.D.