• Nysa or Nyssa (Greek: Νύσ(σ)α, fl. 150s – 126 BC) was a princess from the Kingdom of Pontus and was a Queen of Cappadocia. She was the ruler of Cappadocia...
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  • of Pontus Nysa of Cappadocia, daughter of Pharnaces I of Pontus and Nysa, wife of Ariarathes V of Cappadocia and mother Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia Nysa...
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    the Ariarathid king of Cappadocia from 130 BC to 116 BC. He was the youngest son of Ariarathes V of Cappadocia and Nysa of Cappadocia. "Ariarathes" is the...
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  • children: a son called Mithridates V of Pontus and a daughter called Nysa of Cappadocia, who was also known as Laodice. Nysa is believed to have died during...
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  • Nysa or Nyssa (Greek: Νύσ(σ)α, flourished second half of 2nd century BC) was a Princess from the Kingdom of Cappadocia in Anatolia. Nysa was a royal of...
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    older sister called Nysa and a younger brother called Ariarathes VIII of Cappadocia. In his first years he reigned under the regency of his mother Laodice...
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    children: a son called Mithridates V of Pontus and a daughter called Nysa of Cappadocia, who is also known as Laodice. Nysa died at an unknown date in the 2nd...
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    the Romans to the dominions of his family. By Ariarathes' wife Nysa of Cappadocia (who was the daughter of King Pharnaces I of Pontus) he had six children...
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    son of the King Pharnaces I and Queen Nysa, while his sister was Nysa of Cappadocia. His mother is believed to have died during childbirth, while giving...
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  • century BC), daughter of Pharances I of Pontus and Nysa, wife of Ariarathes V of Cappadocia, mother of Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia Laodice VI (fl. 2nd century...
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    sister of Mithridates V, queen of Cappadocia and regent of her son Ariarathes VI, Nysa of Cappadocia, died. She had been the wife and later the widow of the...
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  • Nysa or Nyssa (Greek: Νύσ(σ)α flourished 1st century BC) was queen consort of Bithynia. She was married to king Nicomedes IV of Bithynia. She was a daughter...
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    ambitions of Pontus. Ariarathes' son, Ariarathes VI (130–116 BC) was related to the Pontine monarchy through his mother Nysa of Cappadocia. His uncle...
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    Cappadocians, are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia; roughly the Nevşehir and Kayseri provinces...
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    bishopric in Cappadocia, Asia Minor. It is important in the history of Christianity due to being the see of the prominent 4th century bishop Gregory of Nyssa...
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  • Bithynia. Nysa was the daughter of the Monarchs Nicomedes III of Bithynia and Nysa, a princess from the Kingdom of Cappadocia. She was the namesake of her mother...
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  • married Nysa, the daughter of Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia and, Laodice of Cappadocia, the sister of Mithridates V of Pontus. Both Nicomedes III and Nysa shared...
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    King of Cappadocia, was the second son of Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia and wife Laodice of Cappadocia. Ariarathes VIII had an older sister called Nysa and...
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    carved out of a large stretch of rock and is one of the best preserved and largest of its kind in the Cappadocia region. Scholars divide Cappadocia's many rock-cut...
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  • (Alexander), a town spared by Alexander the Great in his invasion of Central Asia Nyssa (Cappadocia), a Roman city and bishopric Nyssa (Caria), a Hellenistic...
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    Ariaráthēs Eusebḗs), was the king of Cappadocia in 220–163 BC. Ariarathes IV was the son of the king of Cappadocia Ariarathes III and his Macedonian Greek...
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    mother of Nicomedes III's deceased wife Nysa, then married Nicomedes III to secure his hold over the kingdom. Mithridates VI swiftly invaded Cappadocia to...
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  • kings of Cappadocia, an ancient region in central Anatolia. Ariarathes I, 331–322 BC The hitherto satrap, Ariarathes I managed to keep control of most...
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    Asiatic Vespers (category Massacres of ethnic groups)
    Cappadocia: Nicomedes sent a garrison into the country and married its dowager queen, Laodice. After Mithridates attempted to assassinate the king of...
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    son of the former Pontic monarchs Pharnaces I of Pontus and his cousin-wife Nysa. His mother, Laodice VI, was a Seleucid princess and the daughter of the...
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  • capital of the Assyrians in northern Cappadocia. They were said by Herodotus to have been taken and ruined by Croesus in 547 BCE. It also was the place of the...
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    half siblings named Nysa and Pylaemenes III. When Nicomedes III died in 94 BC, the Roman senate appointed Nicomedes IV to be the king of Bithynia as his successor...
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    Nysa on the Maeander (Greek: Νύσα or Νύσσα) was an ancient city and bishopric of Asia Minor, whose remains are in the Sultanhisar district of Aydın Province...
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  • Greek: Λίμναι) was a town in ancient Cappadocia, inhabited in Byzantine times. Limnae was the place of exile and death of Marcus, a Byzantine usurper. Its...
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  • Hyda was a town of ancient Cappadocia and later of Lycaonia, near the frontiers of Galatia. It became a bishopric; no longer the seat of a residential bishop...
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