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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.

Nequinum/Narnia — by W.V. Harris — last modified Nov 15, 2024 08:34 AM

Nequinum/Narnia (modern Narni) was an ancient settlement in Umbria. It became a Latin colony in 299 BC.

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.

Nerikos? — by W.M. Murray — last modified Jun 08, 2018 05:54 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 54 C4 Nerikos?

Neris? — by G. Reger — last modified Jan 07, 2019 02:50 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 D3 Neris?

Nerulum? — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Oct 02, 2024 10:05 AM

Nerulum? was a settlement of interior Lucania that is known from both Livy and the itineraries. The Roman consul Aemilius Barbula captured the site in 317 BCE.

Nestane — by G. Reger — last modified Apr 22, 2024 04:07 PM

An ancient fortified settlement in Arcadia.

Netteia? — by J. Bennet — last modified Feb 21, 2024 04:35 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 60 F3 Netteia?

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

Nikaia — by J. Fossey — last modified Aug 07, 2022 04:18 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 55 D3 Nikaia

Nikesiane — by E.N. Borza — last modified Oct 20, 2012 06:29 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 51 C3 Nikesiane

Nikonion — by David Braund — last modified Feb 28, 2022 03:40 PM

Nikonion received a sixth-century B.C. colony from either Miletos or Istros. It was assessed tribute by the Delian League in 425/4 B.C. Authors such as Pseudo-Skylax refer to the site as a polis in the urban sense. The colony was under the protection of the Skythian king Skyles. The ancient city was located on the on east bank of the Dniester river where Roksolany, Ukraine, is now located.

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.

Niriz/Narezzash? — by M. Roaf — last modified Oct 20, 2012 03:17 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 3 F4 Niriz/Narezzash?

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.