Nitra
Νίτρα
Nitra(Νίτρα), a place which Ptolemy calls an ἐμπόριον, on the W. coast of Hindostán, in the province of Limyrica. There can be no doubt that it is the same as that called by Pliny Nitrias (vi, 23. s. 26), which he states was held by a colony of pirates. The author of the Periplus speaks of a place, in this immediate neighbourhood, named Naura, and which is, in all probability, the same as Nitrae. (Peripl. Mar. Erythr. § 58, ed. Müller.) It is most likely the present Honaver.
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.