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NOVIODUNUM

Volume 15 · 122 words · 1823 Edition

(Cæsar), a town of the Ædui, commodiously seated on the Liguris: the Nixernum of Antonine. Now Nevers in the Orleanais, on the Loire.—A second Noviodunum of the Aulerci Diablites, in Gallia Celtica, (Antonine); called Noricium (Ptolemy), and Noningtonum Rotrudum by the moderns: Nogent le Rotrou, capital of the duchy of Perche.—A third of the Bituriges, (Cæsar): Now Nueve sur Baromion; a village 15 miles to the north of Bourges, towards Orleans.—A fourth, of Mosia Inferior, (Ptolemy), situated on the Ister; now Nitzyn, in Bessarabia.—A fifth, of Pannonia Superior, (Antonine); now Gurkfeld in Carinthia.—A sixth, Novodunum Suetonianum, the same with Augusta Suetoniana.—A seventh, Novodunum of the Veromandui in Gallia Belgica, (Cæsar): now Noyon in the Isle of France, on the borders of Picardy.