Naxuana
Ναχουάνα
Naxuana (Ναχουάνα, Ptol. 5.13.12), a city on the N. bank of the river Araxes, now Nachdgvân, a city of some importance in Armenian history, and connected, by tradition, with the first habitation of Noah, and the descent of the patriarch from the ark. (Comp. Joseph. Antig. 1.35; St. Martin, Mém. sur l'Armenie, vol. i. p. 131; Ritter, Erdkunde, vol. x. p. 363; Chesney, Exped. Euphrat. vol. i. p. 145.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.