Nora is an ancient pre-Roman and Roman town on a peninsula near Pula, near to Cagliari in Sardinia.
In his Description of Greece, Pausanias, a Greek-Roman geographer of the second century, narrates the mythological foundation of the city: "After Aristaeus, the Iberians crossed to Sardinia, under Norax as leader of the expedition, and they founded the city of Nora. The tradition...