Nysa
Νῦσα
Nysa (Νῦσα). In Europe.
1.
A village in Boeotia on Mt. Helicon. (Strab. ix. p.405; Steph. B. s. v. Νῦσαι.)
2.
A town in Thrace, in the district between the rivers Strymon and Nestus, which subsequently formed part of Macedonia. It is called Nyssos by Pliny. (Steph. B. sub voce Plin. Nat. 4.10. s. 17.)
3.
In Euboea, where the vine was' said to put forth leaves and bear fruit the same day. (Steph. B. sub voce l.c.)
4.
In the island of Naxos. (Steph. B. sub voce
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.