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Novum Oppidum
Novum Oppidum, Latin for "new town", is the name of two Roman towns in ancient Mauretania, North Africa, one in Morocco and one in Algeria.
Novyy Kumak
Novyy Kumak (Новый Кумак) is a kurgan burial ground near Orsk, Orenburg Region, Russia, with Bronze Age, Sauromatian (6th–4th c. BC), and Golden Horde-era nomadic burials; it also names a Bronze Age cultural type.
NSW Central Murray State Forests
NSW Central Murray State Forests, now NSW Central Murray Forests, a Ramsar wetland near Deniliquin designated 20 May 2003, about 84,000 hectares of Millewa, Werai and Koondrook-Perricoota river red gum floodplain forests on the Murray River.
Nubian Ibex (Wild)
Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana), a Vulnerable desert wild goat of NE Africa and Arabia; 65–75 cm tall, ~50 kg, male horns ~1 m; obligate drinker living around cliffs and waterholes.
Nubian pyramids
Nubian pyramids are the steep, narrow royal tombs of the Kingdom of Kush in Sudan, built from about 720 BC to AD 350 at el Kurru, Nuri, and Meroë; over 200 stand at Meroë alone, taller in number than Egypt's roughly 120 pyramids.
Nude beach
A nude beach, also called a clothing-optional or free beach, is a beach where users are at liberty to be nude, with etiquette centered on respect.
Nui Chua Biosphere Reserve
Nui Chua Biosphere Reserve (Khu dự trữ sinh quyển thế giới Núi Chúa), a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated in 2021 in Ninh Thuan province, Vietnam, covering 106,646.45 ha around Nui Chua National Park, with Vietnam's unique dry forest, large fringing coral reefs, and major sea turtle nesting sites.
Nukus Zoo
Nukus Zoo (Nókis haywanat baǵı) is a small private zoo in Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, run by Nukus Zoo cirk LLC; it holds about 25 animals including 8 African lions and a brown bear, and has faced welfare criticism since 2021.
Numazu Port Deep Sea Aquarium
Numazu Port Deep Sea Aquarium (沼津港深海水族館, Coelacanth Museum) in Numazu, Japan, is the world's first aquarium specializing in deep-sea species, with 100+ Suruga Bay species and the only frozen coelacanth specimens on display worldwide.
Numerus Syrorum
Numerus Syrorum: Roman fortified town at modern Maghnia (Lalla Marnia), Algeria, westernmost outpost of Mauretania Caesariensis, garrisoned from the Severan era by a numerus of Syrian archers transferred from Dacia; attested by 217/218 milestones and tombstones to the fifth century.
Nungwi Marine Turtles Mnarani
Nungwi Marine Turtles Mnarani, formally the Mnarani Marine Turtles Conservation Pond, is a community sea turtle rehabilitation center at Nungwi Beach, Zanzibar, founded in 1993.
Nuovo Casino
Nuovo Casino, Chișinău casino at Strada Mitropolit Varlaam 77 inside the Radisson Blu Leogrand Hotel, Moldova; opened 2016, 13 table games, 24/7, junket tours from $2,000 deposits.
Nuraghe
Nuraghe (plural nuraghi): Bronze and Iron Age dry-stone truncated-cone towers with corbelled chambers, unique to Sardinia; over 7,000 known, built c. 1600–1150 BC, exemplified by UNESCO-listed Su Nuraxi di Barumini.
Nuraghe Antigori
Nuraghe Antigori, Sarroch (Cagliari), Sardinia: a Bronze Age nuragic complex built around 1700 BC, fortified with towers and curtain walls, famous for Mycenaean pottery from the Argolid, Crete, and Cyprus.
Nuraghe Appiu
Nuraghe Appiu, Villanova Monteleone, Sardinia: a complex nuraghe with a bastion and an attached village of about 200 huts, dated to the early Iron Age (900-800 BC), on Italy's UNESCO tentative list.
Nuraghe Armungia
Nuraghe Armungia is a single-tower Bronze Age nuraghe of the Nuragic civilization, standing among the houses of Armungia village in the Gerrei subregion of southeastern Sardinia, Italy.
Nuraghe Coa de Serra
Nuraghe Coa de Serra (Coa 'e Serra, Co'e Sèrra) is a Bronze Age nuragic complex at 511 m on the Golgo plateau, Baunei, Sardinia: two limestone towers linked by a flat-roofed corridor plus a trapezoidal building, with a nearby nuragic village.
Nuraghe di Tanca Manna
Nuraghe di Tanca Manna is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Nuoro, Sardinia, consisting of a single-tower nuraghe and a village of huts dating from about 1600 BC.
Nuraghe Is Paras
Nuraghe Is Paras, Isili, Sardinia: a complex nuraghe fortress with trilobate bastion and white limestone tholos chamber 11.80 m high, the tallest in Sardinia; built from the 15th-14th century BC and occupied into the early Middle Ages.
Nuraghe Losa
Nuraghe Losa (nurache 'e losas) is a trilobate tholos nuraghe at Abbasanta, Oristano, Sardinia, built 15th–9th century BC, occupied to the 7th–8th century AD, and the first nuraghe excavated systematically (1890).
Nuraghe Lugherras
Nuraghe Lugherras, Paulilatino, Oristano, Sardinia: a complex polylobate Bronze Age nuraghe with keep, bastion, well, and antemural, excavated by Taramelli in 1906 and reused as a Punic-Roman sanctuary of Demeter and Kore.
Nuraghe Maiori
Nuraghe Maiori, also Majori, is a mixed corridor-and-tholos Bronze Age nuraghe near Tempio Pausania, Sardinia, at 498 m on a granite dome, excavated by Angela Antona and on Italy's UNESCO Tentative List.
Nuraghe Porcarzos
Nuraghe Porcarzos is a Bronze Age complex nuraghe, a megalithic tower-fortress in Borore, Sardinia, whose central tower stands inside a four-lobed bastion enclosing a courtyard, with excavation and restoration underway since 2024.
Nuraghe S'Ortali 'e su Monti
Nuraghe S'Ortali 'e su Monti (San Salvatore), Tortolì, Ogliastra, Sardinia: a Middle Bronze Age complex nuraghe with domus de janas, menhirs, giants' tomb, village, and Sardinia's leading nuragic granary.
Nuraghe Santu Antine
Nuraghe Santu Antine (sa Domu 'e su Re), a Bronze Age complex nuraghe near Torralba, Sassari, Sardinia; central tower about 17.55 m tall in a trilobate bastion, built 16th-15th century BC, on Italy's UNESCO Tentative List.
Nuraghe Succoronis
Nuraghe Succoronis (also Succurronis) is a single-tower Bronze Age nuraghe on a trachyte outcrop near Macomer, Sardinia, with a 14.20 m tower, intact 8.50 m tholos chamber, three side chambers, and spiral light openings.
Nuraghe Vignamarina
Nuraghe Vignamarina is a nuraghe, a prehistoric Sardinian stone tower, near Santa Teresa Gallura in Sassari, Sardinia. Recorded as a single-tower nuraghe with an associated village, it stands about 2 km from town on high ground with remains of probably two contiguous towers.
Nuremberg Zoo
Tiergarten Nürnberg (Nuremberg Zoo), a German municipal zoo opened 1912 at Luitpoldhain and relocated 1939 to the Schmausenbuck; over 6,800 animals of about 310 species, a dolphin lagoon, and 46 international breeding programs.
Nuttallburg Coal Mining Complex and Town Historic District
Nuttallburg Coal Mining Complex and Town Historic District, NRIS 07000846, is a preserved coal mine and company town in New River Gorge, West Virginia, founded by John Nuttall in 1870, leased by Henry Ford in the 1920s, closed in 1958, and NPS-managed since 1998.
Nymphaeum divi Alexandri
Nymphaeum divi Alexandri (Nymphaeum Alexandri, Trofei di Mario): monumental Roman fountain on the Esquiline, Rome, built under Alexander Severus, between the via Tiburtina and via Labicana; brick remains survive in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II gardens.