Nysa
（Νύσα). The legendary scene of the nurture of Dionysus (Bacchus), who was therefore called Nysaeus, Nysius, Nyseïus, Nyseus, Nysigena, etc. Hence the name was applied to several places sacred to that god: as
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in India, at the northwest corner of the Punjab, near the confluence of the rivers Cophen and Choaspes.
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Nyssa, a city of Caria, on the southern slope of Mount Messogis, famous for its wine.
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A city of Cappadocia, near the Halys, the bishopric of St. Gregory of Nyssa.
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A town in Aethiopia near Meroë (Herod. iii. 97, 111).
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A village on the slopes of Helicon, in Boeotia.