Nysa
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Nysa can mean:
- Nysa was a mythical place in Greek mythology where the young god Dionysus was raised. The exact location of Nysa varies in the myths; Alexander's troops in the Swat hills of northwestern Pakistan in 327 BCE, were told that Dionysus had been there before them. Other, modern interpretations of "Nysa" include Ethiopia, Anatolia, Libya, Tribalia (nowadays Serbia), and Arabia. Greek concepts of where Nysa was, are variable enough to suggest that a magical distant land was named 'Nysa' to explain the god's unreadable name, as the 'god of Nysa'. Infant Dionysus, god of the grapevine, was nursed by the rain-nymphs, the Hyades, at Nysa.
Other meanings of Nysa:
- Nis, Serbia: The ancient name of Nis, Naissus, is interpreted as an Indoeuropean word, meaning "nymph".
- Nysa, Anatolia was a Hellenistic city founded by Antiochus I Soter.
- Nysa is the name of several rivers in Silesia, southern Poland (Polish Nysa, German Neiße, Czech Nisa).
- Lusatian Neisse (Polish Nysa Łużycka, German Lausitzer Neiße, Czech Lužická Nisa) - length: ca. 225 km or 140 miles on the Polish - German border. Rising in the NW of the Czech Republic it flows into the Oder near Gubin in Poland.
- Nysa Kłodzka (German: Schlesische Neiße) - length: ca. 244 km or 159 miles. It rises in SW Poland to join the Oder near Brzeg.
- Nysa Szalona - length ca. 51 km, flows into Kaczawa river, which in turns flows into Oder.
- Nysa, Poland is a town in southern Poland on the Nysa Klodzka river.
- NKS Nysa is a men's volleyballteam, based in Nysa Town playing in Polish Volleyball League.
- The Nysa Van was produced in Nysa, Poland from the 1950s to the early 1990s.
- See also: Neisse River, Nisa