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ty on the borders of Illyricum, in the province of Styria, near the modern village of Newmarket, about nine German miles from Aquileia, G. i. 5 N[=o]r[)i]cae Alpes, that part of the Alps which were in, or bordering upon, Noricum N[=o]r[)i]cum, anciently a large country, and now comprehending a great part of _Austria, Styria, Carinthia_, part of _Tyrol, Bavaria_, etc., and divided into Noricum Mediterraneum and Ripense. It was first conquered by the Romans under Tiberius, in the reign of Augustus, and was celebrated for its mineral treasures, especially iron N[)o]v[)i][)o]d[=u]num Belgarum, an ancient city of Belgic Gaul, now called _Noyon_ N[)o]v[)i][)o]d[=u]num Bitur[)i]gum, _Neuvy_, or _Neufvy_, G. vii. 12 N[)o]v[)i][)o]d[=u]num Aeduorum, _Nevers_, G. vii. 55 N[)o]v[)i][)o]d[=u]num Suessionum, _Soissons, al. Noyon_, G. ii. 12 N[)o]v[)i]om[=a]gum, _Spire_, an ancient city of Germany, in the now upper circle of the Rhine, and on that river Numantia, a celebrated city of ancient Spain, famous for a gallant resistance against the Romans, in a siege of fourteen years; _Almasan_ Numeius, G. i. 7 Num[)i]dae, the inhabitants of, G. ii. 7 Numid[)i]a, an ancient and celebrated kingdom of Africa, bordering on Mauritania; _Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli_, etc. N[=y]mphaeum, a promontory of Illyricum, exposed to the south wind, and distant about three miles from Lissus, _Alessio_, C. iii. 26 Oc[)e]lum, a town situated among the Cottian Alps, Usseau in Piedmont, G. i. 10 Octavius, C. iii. 9 Octod[=u]rus, a town belonging to the Veragrians, among the Pennine Alps, now _Martigny_ in the Valois, G. iii. 1 Octog[=e]sa, a city of Hispania Tarraconensis, _Mequinenza_, C. i. 61 Ollovico, G. vii. 31 Orch[)o]m[)e]nus, a town in Boeotia, _Orcomeno_, C. iii. 5 5 Orcynia, the name given by Greek writers to the Hercynian forest Orget[=o]rix, G. i. 2, 3 Or[)i]cum, a town in Epirus, _Orco, or Orcha_, C. iii. 11, 12 Osc[=e]nses, the people of Osca, a town in Hispania Tarraconensis, now _Huescar_, C. i. 60 Os[=i]sm[)i]i, an ancient people of Gaul, one of the Gentes Armoricae. Their country occupied part of Neodron Brittany; capital Vorganium, afterwards Osismii, and now _Korbez_. In this territory also stood Brivatas Portus, now _Brest_, G. i. 34 Otacilii, C. iii. 28 Padua, the _Po_, the largest river in Italy, which rises in Piedmont, and dividing Lombardy into two parts, falls into the Adriatic Sea
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