Novas

NOVAS, AD, a fortress of Upper Moesia, situated on the Danube, and on the road from Viminacium to Nicomedia. (Itin. Ant. p. 218.) It lay about 48 miles E. of the former of those towns. It is identified with Kolumbatz, where there are still traces of ancient fortifications.

NOVAS, AD, a station in Illyricum (Anton. Itin. ), which has been identified with Runovich in the Imoschi, where several Latin inscriptions have been found, principally dedications to Jupiter, from soldiers of the 1st and 13th legions, who were quartered there. (Wilkinson, Dalmatia and Montenegro, vol. 2. p. 149.)