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Novae

Νοοῦα

Novae (Νοοῦα;, Ptol. 3.10.10; called Νοβαί by Procop. de Aedif. 4.11. p. 308, and Hierocl. p. 636; and Novensis Civ. by Marcellin. Chron. ad an. 487), a town of Lower Moesia on the Danube, and according to the Itin. Ant. (p. 221) and the Not. Imp. (100.29), the station of the legio I. Italica. It is identified either with Novograd or Gourabeli. At a later period it obtained the name of Eustesium. (Jornand. Get. 18.)

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.