Nora (Cappadocia)

Nora (Ancient Greek: τὰ Νῶρα) was a mountain fortress and town of ancient Cappadocia, on the frontiers of Lycaonia. Located at the foot of Mount Taurus, in which Eumenes was for a whole winter besieged by Antigonus (319 BC), before he escaped.[1][2][3] In Strabo's time it was called Neroassus or Neroassos (Νηροασσός), and served as a treasury to Sicinus, who was striving to obtain the sovereignty of Cappadocia.[4]

Its site is tentatively located near Gelin tepe in (Aksaray Province), a small mound lying c. 3.5km east to the modern town of Güzelyurt and behind the village of Sivrihisar Asiatic Turkey.[5][6]

References
  1. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Eumenes". Encyclopædia Britannica. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 889.
  2. Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica (Historical Library). 18.41.
  3. Plutarch, Eum. 10; Corn. Nep. Eum. 5.
  4. Strabo. Geographica. xii. p. 537. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  5. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 63, and directory notes accompanying.
  6. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Nora". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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