Nora (Cappadocia)

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title: Nora (Cappadocia)
text: Nora was a mountain fortress and town of ancient Cappadocia, on the frontiers of Lycaonia. Located at the foot of Mount Taurus, in which Eumenes was for a whole winter besieged by Antigonus (319 BC), before he escaped. In Strabo's time it was called Neroassus or Neroassos (Νηροασσός), and served as a treasury to Sicinus, who was striving to obtain the sovereignty of Cappadocia. Its site is tentatively located near Gelin tepe in, a small mound lying c. 3.5 km (2.2 mi) east to the modern town of G
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description: Town of ancient Cappadocia
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