additions to human knowledge which our age has acquired. _Z. A. Ragozin, Story of Chaldea, introduction, chapters 1-4._ ALSO IN: _A. H. Layard, Nineveh and its Remains; and Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon._ _G. Smith, Assyrian Discoveries_ See, also, ASSYRIA; and LIBRARIES, ANCIENT. NINEVEH, Battle of (A.D. 627). See PERSIA: A. D. 226-627. NINFEO, Treaty of. See GENOA: A. D. 1261-1299. NINIQUIQUILAS, The. See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: PAMPAS TRIBES. NIPAL NEPAUL: English war with the Ghorkas. See INDIA: A. D. 1805-1816. NIPMUCKS, NIPNETS, The. See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY; also, NEW ENGLAND: A. D. 1674-1675, 1675, and 1676-1678 KING PHILIP'S WAR. NISÆAN PLAINS, The. The famous horse-pastures of the ancient Medes. "Most probably they are to be identified with the modern plains of Khawah and Alishtar, between Behistun and Khorramabad, which are even now considered to afford the best summer pasturage in Persia. … The proper Nisæa is the district of Nishapur in Khorasan, whence it is probable that the famous breed of horses was originally brought." _G. Rawlinson, Five Great Monarchies: Media, chapter 1, with foot-note._ NISCHANDYIS. See SUBLIME PORTE. NISHAPOOR: Destruction by the Mongols (1221). See KHORASSAN: A. D. 1220-1221. NISIB, Battle of (1839). See TURKS: A. D. 1831-1840. NISIBIS, Sieges of (A. D. 338-350). See PERSIA: A. D. 226-627. NISIBIS, Theological School of. See NESTORIANS. ----------NISMES: Start-------- NISMES: Origin. See VOLCÆ. NISMES: A. D. 752-759. Recovery from the Moslems. See MAHOMETAN CONQUEST: A. D. 752-759. ----------NISMES: End-------- NISSA, Siege and battle (1689-1690). See HUNGARY; A. D. 1683-1699. NITIOBRIGES, The. These were a tribe in ancient Gaul whose capital city was Aginnum, the modern town of Agen on the Garonne. _G. Long, Decline of the Roman Republic, volume 4, chapter 17._ NIVELLE, Battle of the (1813). See SPAIN: A. D. 1812-1814. NIVÔSE, The month. See FRANCE: A. D. 1793 (OCTOBER) THE NEW REPUBLICAN CALENDAR. NIZAM. Nizam's dominions. See INDIA: A. D. 1662-1748. NIZZA. See NICE. NO. NO AMON. See THEBES, EGYPT. NO MAN'S LAND, Africa. See GRIQUAS. {2364} NO MAN'S LAND, England. In the open or common field system which prevailed in early England, the fields were divided into long, narrow strips, wherever practicable. In some cases, "little odds and ends of unused land remained, which from time immemorial were called 'no man's land,' or 'anyone's land,' or 'Jack's land,' as the case might be." _F. Seebohm, English Village Community, chapter 1._ NO POPERY RIOTS, The. See ENGLAND: A. D. 1778-1780.