Nia
Νία
Nia (Νία), a river of Interior Libya, discharging itself into the Hesperian bay, in 13° 30′ E. long. and 90° N. lat. (Ptol. 4.6.7). Colonel Leake (Journ. Geog. Soc. vol. ii. p. 18) has identified it with the Rio Grande, which takes its rise on the border of the highland of Senegambia, according to Mollien's map (Trav. in the Interior of Africa, 1820), in 10° 37′ N. lat. and 13° 37′ W. long.
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.