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Nysa may refer to:
Greek Mythology
- Nysa (mythology) 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), daughter of Laodice IV and Antiochus, wife of Pharnaces I 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, one of the daughters of Mithridates V of Pontus and Laodice VI
- Nysa, one of the daughters of Mithridates VI of Pontus from his concubine
- Nysa (wife of Nicomedes III of Bithynia), 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
Places and jurisdictions
- in Turkey
- Nysa on the Maeander, 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
- Nysa (Caria), an ancient Hellenistic city founded by Antiochus I Soter
- Nisa (Lycia), an ancient city in Lycia
- in 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
- Elsewhere
- Nysa (Alexander), a town spared by Alexander the Great during his invasion of Central Asia
- Nysa, Poland, a town in southern Poland on the Nysa Kłodzka river
- Nysa-Scythopolis, the Hellenistic Bet She'an in northern Israel
- Nisa, Turkmenistan
Rivers
- Nysa Łużycka, 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, Polish name for the Eastern Neisse a river in Poland, a tributary of the Oder (Odra)
- Nysa Szalona, Polish name for the Raging Neisse, a tributary of the Kaczawa in Poland
Other uses
- 44 Nysa, an Asteroid
- NKS Nysa, a men's volleyball team playing in Polish Volleyball League
- ZSD Nysa, an Automobile produced in Nysa, Poland from the 1950s to the early 1990s
- Neisse University, a university in the border triangle of Czech Republic, Poland and Germany
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