NABALIA, the name of the channel made by Drusus from the Rhine to the river Sala; now the _Ysell_. See Annals, ii. s. 8.
NABATHÆI, a people between the Euphrates and the Red Sea; comprehending Arabia Petræa, and bounded by Palestine on the north.
NAR, a river which rises in Umbria, and, falling into the lake _Velinus_, rushes thence with a violent and loud cascade, and empties itself into the Tiber.
NARBON GAUL, the southern part of Gaul, bounded by the Pyrenees to the west, the Mediterranean to the south, and the Alps and the Rhine to the east.
NARNIA, a town of Umbria, on the river _Nar_; now _Narni_, in the territory of the Pope.
NAUPORTUM, a town on a cognominal river in Pannonia.
NAVA, a river of Gallia Belgica, which runs north-east into the west side of the Rhine; now the _Nahe_.
NEMETES, a people originally of Germany, removed to the diocese of _Spire_, on the Rhine.
NICEPHORUS, a river of Asia that washes the walls of _Tigranocerta_, and runs into the _Tigris_; _D'Anville_ says, now called _Khabour_.
NICOPOLIS: there were several towns of this name, viz. in Egypt, Armenia, Bithynia, on the Euxine, &c. A town of the same name was built by Augustus, on the coast of Epirus, as a monument of his victory at Actium.
NINOS, the capital of _Assyria_; called also _Nineve_.
NISIBIS, a city of Mesopotamia, at this day called _Nesibin_.
NOLA, a city of Campania, on the north-east of Vesuvius. At this place Augustus breathed his last: it retains its old name to this day.
NORICUM, a Roman province, bounded by the Danube on the north, by the _Alpes Noricæ_ on the south, by Pannonia on the east, and Vindelicia on the west; now containing a great part of Austria, Tyrol, Bavaria, &c.
NOVESIUM, a town of the Ubii in Gallia Belgica; now _Nuys_, on the west side of the Rhine, in the electorate of _Cologne_.
NUCERIA, a city of Campania; now _Nocera_.
NUMIDIA, a celebrated kingdom of Africa, bordering on Mauritania, and bounded to the north by the Mediterranean; now _Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli_, &c. the eastern part of the kingdom of _Algiers_. Syphax was king of one part, and Masinissa of the other.
OCRICULUM, a town of Umbria, near the confluence of the Nar and the Tiber; now _Otricoli_, in the duchy of _Spoletto_.