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INDEX.
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  • Narses, 372.
  • Narva, battle of, 637.
  • Nase′by, battle of, 612.
  • National Assembly, French, 651.
  • Nau′cra-tis, III.
  • Nax′os, 138, 139.
  • Ne-ar′chus, admiral of Alexander, 166.
  • Neb′u-chad-nez′zar, 58, 59.
  • Ne′clio IL, 25, 26.
  • Necker (nĕk′er), 650.
  • Neg-ro-pont'. See Eubõea.
  • Negro Race, 2.
  • Nelson, English admiral, 670, 678.
  • Ne′me-a, 106.
  • Nem′e-sis, 103.
  • Ne′o-Pla′to-nists, the, 212.
  • Nero, Roman emp., 312, 313.
  • Nerva, Roman emp., 317, 318.
  • Nes′tor, 95.
  • Netherlands, the country, 563; under Charles V., 563 ; revolt of the, 563–571; pacification of Ghent, 567; union of Utrecht, 567; treaty of 1609, 570; Spanish Netherlands, war concerning, 593 ; ceded to Austria, 597; Austrian Netherlands ceded to the French Republic, 669. Ni-çæ′a, 332; captured by the crusaders, 442.
  • Nice (nees), 668.
  • New Amsterdam, 620.
  • Newfoundland (nu′fund-land′), surrendered by France to England, 597.
  • New Model, the, organized, 611; disbanded, 618.
  • New Or′le-ans, 631.
  • Newton, Sir Isaac, 630.
  • Ney (nā), Marshal, 684.
  • Nibclungen, song of the, 508.
  • Ni-çæ′a, 165.
  • Nicholas I., czar, reign, 693–696.
  • Niç'i-as, peace of, 150.
  • Niç'i-as, 152, n.
  • Nic'o-me-di′a, 330.
  • Nic′op′o-lis, battle of, 462.
  • Niemen (nee′me̯n), the, 684.
  • Nihilism, 698, 699.
  • Nile, the valley of, 1 ; inundation of, 18; delta of, 18; cataracts of, 18, n.; deposits of, 18, n.; Canopic branch of, 25.
  • Nimequen (ne-mā′ḡen), treaty of, 594.
  • Nineveh, fall of, 51 ; ruins of, 54, n.
  • Nin′e-veh, battle of, 390.
  • Nirvana (nir′vah-na), 12.
  • No-men′tum, 244.
  • Normans, in Gaul, 413; in Italy, 433, n. ; their conquest of England, 433–437; effects of Norman Conquest on literature, 489, 490. See Northmen.
  • Norsemen. See Northmen.
  • Northmen, 410–413.
  • Notables, assembly of, 650.
  • Nottingham, 610.
  • Nov′go-rod′, 469.
  • Nova Scotia (no′va sko′shi-a), 597.
  • Nu′bi-a, 33.
  • Nu′ma, 225.
  • Nu-man′ti-a, 272.
  • Nystadt (nü′städ), peace of, 638.
  • Oates (ōts), Titus, 621.
  • O'-ꞓhus, Artaxerxes, k. of Persia, 166.
  • O'Cŏn′ne̯ll, Daniel, 722.
  • Oc-ta′vi-a, wife of Antony, 304.

Oc-ta′vi-us, Roman consul, 282. Oc-ta′vi-us, Caius (Augustus), opposes Antony, 301 ; enters Second Triumvirate, 301; divides the world with Antony, 303; defeats Antony at battle of Actium, 304; reign of, 305-309. See Augustus.

  • Od′e-na′tus, 329.
  • Od′o-a′cer, 348.
  • O-dys′seus, 88.
  • Od′ys-sey, the, 96, 190, 191.
  • O-i′leus, 95.
  • O-ly̆m′pi-a, 106, 107.
  • O-ly̆m'pi-ăd, 107.
  • Olympian Council, 102, 103; Games, 106, 107.
  • Olympian Zeus, by Phidias, 185.
  • Olympus, Mount, 88.
  • O'mar, caliph, 397, 399.
  • Ommaya (om-mā'ya), 400, n.
  • Ommiades, house of, 400.
  • Opium War, 725, 726.
  • Oracles, Greek, 104–106.
  • Orange, William of, 565–569.
  • Orange-Stuarts, the, 626–629.
  • Oratory, among the Greeks, 198–201; among the Romans, 335.