Central Asia
Turkmenistan
Ahal Province

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: “Köne Nusaý”, “Mitridatkirt”, “Nisa”, “Nisa, Turkmenistan”, and “Old Nissa (Nusay)”

Nissa

Latitude
37.9515° or 37° 57′ 5″ north
Longitude
58.211° or 58° 12′ 40″ east
Open location code
8H9WX626+HC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 102927391
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”
  • 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: “Mitradatkirt”
  • Croatian: “Nisa”
  • Czech: “Nisa”
  • Dutch: “Nisa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نسا”
  • Esperanto: “Nisa (Turkmenio)”
  • Esperanto: “Nisa”
  • Finnish: “Nisa”
  • French: “Nisa”
  • Galician: “Nisa”
  • Georgian: “ნისა”
  • German: “Mithridakert”
  • German: “Nisa”
  • Gilaki: “نسا”
  • Hausa: “Mitridatkirt”
  • Hausa: “Nisa”
  • Hebrew: “ניסה”
  • Hindi: “निसा के पार्थियन किले”
  • 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: “مهردادکرد”
  • Persian: “مهردادگرد”
  • Persian: “نسا”
  • Polish: “Nisa”
  • Polish: “Nowa Nisa”
  • Polish: “Parthaunisa”
  • Polish: “Stara Nisa”
  • Portuguese: “Nisa”
  • Russian: “Ниса”
  • Russian: “Новая ниса”
  • Russian: “Старая Ниса”
  • Serbian: “Партијска тврђава Ниса”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nisa”
  • Slovak: “Nisa”
  • Slovenian: “Nisa, Turkmenistan”
  • Slovenian: “Nisa”
  • Spanish: “Mithradatkirt”
  • Spanish: “Mitradat Kirt”
  • Spanish: “Nisa”
  • Spanish: “Nysa”
  • Spanish: “Parthaunisa”
  • Swedish: “Nisa”
  • Tajik: “Нисо”
  • Tatar: “Ниса археологик каласы”
  • Turkish: “Nisa, Türkmenistan”
  • Turkmen: “Gadymy Nusaý”
  • Turkmen: “Nusaý galasy”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніса”
  • Urdu: “نسا، ترکمانستان”
  • Uzbek: “Niso”
  • Vietnamese: “Nisa, Turkmenistan”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nissa”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.