Nagara (ancient city)
Nagara (
Dionysopolis and Nysa
From the second name which Ptolemy has preserved, Dionysopolis, we are led to believe that this is the same place as Nysa (Νύσα) or Nyssa (Νύσσα), which, according to ancient historians, was spared from plunder and destruction by Alexander the Great because the inhabitants asserted that it had been founded by Dionysus, when he conquered the area and he named the city Nysa and the land Nysaea (Νυσαία) after his nurse and also he named the mountain near the city, Meron (Μηρὸν) (i.e. thigh), because he grew in the thigh of Zeus.[5][6][7]
When Alexander arrived at the city, together with his
Greco-Bactrian settlement
Archaeologist
See also
- Charles Masson – British East India Company soldier, explorer and amateur archaeologist
- Nagarahara (kingdom)
- Nangarhar Province – Province of Afghanistan
- Xuanzang – 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar
Notes
- Greco-Roman geography, the Ganges river divided the known area of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia into India intra Gangem and India extra Gangem, each roughly corresponding to the peninsular region of South Asiaand mainland Southeast Asia respectively.
References
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- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 7.1.43.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ "Afghanistan Significant Site 155. Nagara Ghundi". www.cemml.colostate.edu.
- ^ Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, 5.1
- ^ a b Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, 5.2
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 6.23.5
- ^ Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 2.10
- ^ Tarzi, Zémaryalai (24 February 2001). "Le site ruiné de Hadda". In Marigo, V. (ed.). Afghanistan. Patrimoine en péril. Actes d'une journée d'étude (in French). p. 63.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Nagara". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.