Nissa

Nisa was an ancient settlement of the Parthians, located near the Bagyr neighborhood of , , 18 km west of the city center. Nisa is described by some as the first seat of the Arsacid Empire.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: capital of Parthian Empire
  • Also known as: “Mint of Nisa Mithradatkart”, “Mithradatkirt”, “Mithridakert”, “Mitradat Kirt”, “Mitradatkirt”, “Mitridatkirt”, “New Nisa”, “Nisa”, “Nisa Mithradatkart”, “Nisa, Turkmenistan”, “Nowa Nisa”, “Nusaý galasy”, “Nysa”, “Parthaunisa”, “Stara Nisa”, “Täze Nusaý”, “Александрополь (Старая Ниса)”, “Наса́”, “Неса́”, “Новая ниса”, “Парфавниса”, “царская крепость Митридаткерт (Старая Ниса)”, “مهردادکرد”, “مهردادگرد”, and “निसा के पार्थियन किले”

Nissa

Latitude
37.9665° or 37° 57′ 60″ north
Longitude
58.1985° or 58° 11′ 55″ east
Open location code
8H9WX58X+JC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 102927393
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q854672
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Nissa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nisa”
  • Arabic: “نسا”
  • Armenian: “Նիսա”
  • Asturian: “Nisa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nisa (Türkmənistan)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nisa”
  • Bashkir: “Ниса (ҡала)”
  • Bashkir: “Ниса”
  • Basque: “Nisa”
  • Belarusian: “Ніса”
  • Bengali: “নিসা, তুর্কমেনিস্তান”
  • Bulgarian: “Ниса (Туркменистан)”
  • Bulgarian: “Ниса”
  • Catalan: “Nasa”
  • Chinese: “尼萨”
  • Chinese: “尼薩”
  • Croatian: “Nisa”
  • Czech: “Nisa”
  • Dutch: “Nisa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نسا”
  • Esperanto: “Nisa (Turkmenio)”
  • Esperanto: “Nisa”
  • Finnish: “Nisa”
  • French: “Nisa”
  • Galician: “Nisa, Turkmenistán”
  • Galician: “Nisa”
  • Georgian: “ნისა”
  • German: “Nisa”
  • Gilaki: “نسا”
  • Hausa: “Nisa”
  • Hebrew: “ניסה”
  • Hindi: “निसा, तुर्कमेनिस्तान”
  • Hungarian: “Nisza”
  • Indonesian: “Nisa, Turkmenistan”
  • Irish: “Nisa”
  • Italian: “Nisa”
  • Japanese: “ニサ”
  • Korean: “니사”
  • Lithuanian: “Nisa”
  • Maithili: “निसाक पार्थियन किलासभ”
  • Maltese: “Nisa”
  • Nepali: “निसाको पार्थियन गढीहरू”
  • Persian: “نسا”
  • Polish: “Nisa”
  • Portuguese: “Nisa”
  • Russian: “Ниса”
  • Serbian: “Партијска тврђава Ниса”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nisa”
  • Slovak: “Nisa”
  • Slovenian: “Nisa, Turkmenistan”
  • Slovenian: “Nisa”
  • Spanish: “Nisa”
  • Swedish: “Nisa”
  • Tajik: “Нисо”
  • Tatar: “Ниса археологик каласы”
  • Turkish: “Nisa, Türkmenistan”
  • Turkmen: “Gadymy Nusaý”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніса”
  • Urdu: “نسا، ترکمانستان”
  • Uzbek: “Niso”
  • Vietnamese: “Nisa, Turkmenistan”

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