Nysa may refer to:

Greek Mythology

Nysa (mythology) In Greek mythology, the mountainous district of Nysa (), variously associated with Ethiopia, Libya, Boeotia, Thrace, India, or Arabia by Greek mythographers, was the traditional place where the rain nymphs, the Hyades, raised the infant god ...

or Nyseion, the mountainous region or mount (various traditional locations), where nymphs raised the young god Dionysus * Nysiads, nymphs of Mount Nysa who cared for and taught the infant Dionysus

Historical figures

Nysa (wife of Pharnaces I of Pontus) Nysa or Nyssa (, c. 2nd century BC) was a Greek Seleucid princess and a queen of the Kingdom of Pontus. Biography Nysa was of Greek Macedonian and Persian descent. She was a daughter of the Seleucid Prince Antiochus and Seleucid Queen Laodice ...

, daughter of Laodice IV and Antiochus, wife of Pharnaces I of Pontus *

Nysa of Cappadocia Nysa or Nyssa (, ) was a princess from the Kingdom of Pontus and was a Queen of Cappadocia. She was the ruler of Cappadocia on behalf of her minor son in 130126 BC. Biography Nysa was of Greek Macedonian and Persian ancestry. She was the dau ...

, daughter of Pharnaces I of Pontus and Nysa, wife of Ariarathes V of Cappadocia and mother Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia * Nysa, one of the daughters of

Mithridates V of Pontus Mithridates or Mithradates V Euergetes (, which means "Mithridates the Benefactor"; died 120 BC) was a prince and the seventh king of the Kingdom of Pontus. Life Mithridates V was of Greek Macedonian and Persian ancestry. He was the son of th ...

and Laodice VI * Nysa, one of the daughters of

Mithridates VI of Pontus Mithridates or Mithradates VI Eupator (; 135–63 BC) was the ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus in northern Anatolia from 120 to 63 BC, and one of the Roman Republic's most formidable and determined opponents. He was an effective, ambitious, and r ...

from his concubine *

Nysa (wife of Nicomedes III of Bithynia) Nysa or Nyssa (, flourished second half of 2nd century BC) was a Princess from the Kingdom of Cappadocia in Anatolia. Nysa was a royal of Greek Macedonian and Persian ancestry. She was the daughter and first-born child of the monarchs Ariarathes ...

, daughter of Laodice of Cappadocia and Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia, the first wife of Nicomedes III of Bithynia * Nysa (daughter of Nicomedes III of Bithynia), daughter of Nicomedes III of Bithynia and Nysa

Settlements and jurisdictions

Turkey

Nysa on the Maeander Nysa on the Maeander () was an ancient city and bishopric of Asia Minor, whose remains are in the Sultanhisar district of Aydın Province of Turkey, east of the Ionian city of Ephesus, and which remains a Latin Catholic titular see. At one t ...

, (Caria) an ancient city and bishopric in Asia Minor (Anatolia), ruins in the Sultanhisar district of Aydın Province, restored as Latin Titular bishopric of Nysa in Asia in 1933 * Nysa (Cappadocia), an ancient city in Cappadocia * Nisa (Lycia), an ancient city in Lycia

Greece

* Nysa (Boeotia), a town of ancient Boeotia * Nysa (Euboea), a town of ancient Euboea * Nysa (Naxos), a town of ancient Naxos * Nysa (Thrace), a town of ancient Thrace and later Macedonia

Other

Nysa (Alexander) Nagara (), also known as Dionysopolis (), was an ancient city in the northwest part of ("India within the Ganges"), distinguished in Ptolemy by the title 'also Dionysopolis'. It also appears in sources as Nagarahara, and was situated between ...

, a town spared by Alexander the Great during his invasion of Central Asia *

Nysa, Poland Nysa ( or ''Neiße'') is a city in southern Poland on the Eastern Neisse ( Polish: ''Nysa Kłodzka'') river, situated in the Opole Voivodeship. With 43,849 inhabitants (2019), it is the capital of Nysa County. It comprises the urban portion of ...

, a town in southern Poland on the Nysa Kłodzka river * Nysa-Scythopolis, the Hellenistic Bet She'an in northern Israel *

Nisa, Turkmenistan Nisa (; ; also Parthaunisa) was an ancient settlement of the Parthians, located near thBagyr neighborhoodof Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 18 km west of the city center. Nisa is described by some as the first seat of the Arsacid Empire. It is tr ...

Rivers

Nysa Łużycka The Lusatian Neisse (; ; ; Upper Sorbian: ''Łužiska Nysa''; Lower Sorbian: ''Łužyska Nysa''), or Western Neisse, is a river in northern Central Europe.

, Polish name for the Lusatian Neisse, a river in the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany, flowing to Oder River near the towns of Guben and Gubin *

Nysa Kłodzka The Eastern Neisse, also known by its Polish name of Nysa Kłodzka (, ), is a river in southwestern Poland, a left tributary of the Oder, with a length of 188 km (21st longest) and a basin area of 4,570 km2 (3,742 in Poland). Prior to Wo ...

, a river in Poland, named for the town of Kłodzka, in English called the Eastern Neisse; a tributary of the Oder (Odra) *

Nysa Szalona The Raging NeisseDodge, Lt Col Theodore Ayrault. ''Napoleon: A History of the Art of War. Vol. IV'', 2014 (, or ''Jauersche Neiße'') is a river in Poland. It has a length of about and flows into the Kaczawa (Katzbach), which in turn flows into ...

, a river in Poland, the Raging Neisse; a tributary of the Kaczawa in Poland *

Nysa Mała The Nysa Mała ("Little Neisse") is a river in Poland that is about 19 kilometres long, and is a left tributary of the Raging Neisse. In the area of the foothills of the Sudetes it flows through the Chełmy Landscape Park. The Little Neisse fl ...

, a river in Poland, the Little Neisse; a tributary of the Nysa Szalona

Other uses

44 Nysa 44 Nysa is a large and very bright main-belt asteroid, and the brightest member of the Nysian asteroid family. It is classified as a rare class E asteroid and is probably the largest of this type (though 55 Pandora is only slightly smaller). ...

, an asteroid *

NKS Nysa Stal Nysa SA is a Polish professional men's volleyball team based in Nysa, founded in 1948. Honours * Polish Cup The Polish Cup in Association football, football ( ) is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout football competition f ...

, a men's volleyball team playing in Polish Volleyball League *

ZSD Nysa The Nysa van was produced in the town of Nysa, Poland, from 1958 until 1994. The Nysa was based on the same chassis as the angular shaped Żuk van, but had rounded body lines, especially the two-part rounded windshield, and was considered more co ...

, an Automobile produced in Nysa, Poland from the 1950s to the early 1990s *

Neisse University The Neisse University was a trinational academic network held by the cooperating partners University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Technical University of Liberec and Wroclaw University of Technology. The places of study were located in ...

, a university in the border triangle of Czech Republic, Poland and Germany