"....when it became known as Scythopolis, "the city of the Scythians", probably because of the Scythian cavalry in the army of Ptolemy II. In the second century B.C. the Seleucids gave the city an additional name "Nysa" in honor of the nurse of the goddess Dionysus, who according to mythology had been born there." Forrás

 

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