Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . that Nacoleia wassituated on the site of the modern Sidiijhasl, on theBorth-west of Boganlu. [L. NACONA (NaKiivrj, Steph. B. : Eth. Naicw-i/ajoy), a town of Sicily mentioned only by Stephanusof Byzantium, who cites Philistus as his accuracy of the name is, however, confirmed bycoins, the earliest of which bear the legend NAKO-NAION, while those of later date have NAKH-NAinN. From one of the latter we learn that thetown had been occupied by the Campanians, appa-rently at the same period with Aetna and Entella.(Millingen, Ancient Coins,
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . that Nacoleia wassituated on the site of the modern Sidiijhasl, on theBorth-west of Boganlu. [L. NACONA (NaKiivrj, Steph. B. : Eth. Naicw-i/ajoy), a town of Sicily mentioned only by Stephanusof Byzantium, who cites Philistus as his accuracy of the name is, however, confirmed bycoins, the earliest of which bear the legend NAKO-NAION, while those of later date have NAKH-NAinN. From one of the latter we learn that thetown had been occupied by the Campanians, appa-rently at the same period with Aetna and Entella.(Millingen, Ancient Coins, pp. 33—35; Sestini,Lett. Num. vol. vii. pi. L) There is no clue to itsposition. [E. H. B.] NACRASA (NaKpaaa), a town in the north ofLydia, on the road from Thyatira to Pergamum.(Ptol. V. 2. § 16; Hierocl. p. 670, where it is calledA/cpoffoj.) ChishuU (^Aiit. Asiat. p. 146) hasidentified the place by means of coins with Bakhir,or Bakri, somewhat to the north-east of Somma.(Comp. Arundell, Seven Churches, p. 276.) [L. S.] NAISSUS. 395. COIN OF NACRASA. NAEBIS or NEBIS. [Gallaeclv, Vol. L p. 933; MiNIUS.] NAELUS (Na?Aos, Ptol. ii. 6. § 5), a river onthe north coast of Hispania Tarraconensis, in the ter-ritory of the Paesici, a tribe of the Astures. Nowthe Nalon. NAGADIBA (Na7a5(§o, Ptol. vii. 4. § 7: , Ptol. vii. 4. § 9), a town in the of the island of Taprobane or Cei/lon, at nogreat distance from the capital gives the same name to one of a group ofislands which, he states, surrounded Ceylon, (vii. 4.§ 13). The name may be a corruption of theSanscrit Nngadicipa, which would mean Island ofSnakes. ry/i NAGARA (Nayopa), a city in the N\V. part ofIndia intra Gangem, distinguished in Ptolemy bythe title 7} ko.\ AtovvadnoAis (vii. 1. § 43). Itis no doubt the present Nagar, between the Kdhdriver and the Indus. From the second name whichPtolemy has preserved, we are led to behove thatthis is the same place as Nysa or Nyssa, \vhich wass
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