. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . roved by coins that Nacoleia wassituated on the site of the modem Sidiykasi, on thenorth-west of Doganlu. [L. S.] XACOXA (NaKuwjj, Steph. B. : Eth. Na/cw-wubs), a town of Sicily mentioned only by Stephanasof Byzantium, who cites Philistus as his of the name is. however, confirmed by? ie earliest of which hear the legend NAKO-NAION, while those of later date have NAK.^-NAIAN. From one of the latter we learn that thetown had been occupied by the Campanians. appa-rently at the .-nine period with Aetna and Entella.(Millingen, Ancient Coi
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . roved by coins that Nacoleia wassituated on the site of the modem Sidiykasi, on thenorth-west of Doganlu. [L. S.] XACOXA (NaKuwjj, Steph. B. : Eth. Na/cw-wubs), a town of Sicily mentioned only by Stephanasof Byzantium, who cites Philistus as his of the name is. however, confirmed by? ie earliest of which hear the legend NAKO-NAION, while those of later date have NAK.^-NAIAN. From one of the latter we learn that thetown had been occupied by the Campanians. appa-rently at the .-nine period with Aetna and Entella.(Millingen, Ancient Coins, pp. 33—35; Sestiui,Lett. Sum. vol. vii. pL 1.) There is no clue to itsposition. [E- H. B.] NACRASA (Nawpao-a), a town in the north ofLydia, on the road from Thyatira to Pergamum.(PtoL v. 2. § 16; Hierocl. p. 670, where it is calledAKpafos.) Chishull {Ant. Asiat. p. 146) hasidentified the place by means of coins with Bakldr,or Bakri, somewhat to the north-east of >(Coiiip. Arundell, Seven Chicrches, p. 276.) [L. S.] NAISSUS. 395. COIN OF NACRASA. NAEBIS or XEBIS. [Gallaecia, Vol. I. p. 933;Mini us.] XAELUS (Na?Aoj, Ptol. ii. 6. § 5), a river onthe nortli coast of Hispania Tarraconensis. in the ter- f the Paesici, a tribe of the Astures. Nowtin: Nolan. XAGADIBA (Hayac,i$a, Ptol. vii. 4. § 7: €ui, Ptol. vii. 4. § 9), a town in the of the inland of Taprobane or Ceylon, 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 the it Xagadwipa, which would mean Island ofSnakes. [V.] NAGARA (Xdyapa), a city in the NW. part ofIndia intra Gangem, distinguished in Ptolemy bythe title rj «ai &iovvcr6iro\is (vii. 1. § 43). Itis no doubt the present Nagar, between the Kdbulriver and the Indus. From the second name which iy has preserved, we are led to believe thatthis is the same place as Xysa or Xyssa, which wasspared fr
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