Nevsehir is the capital of Nevsehir Province in Turkey.

Historically, Nevsehir was a small village, called Nyssa, founded on the slopes of Mount Kahveci, in the valley of Kizilirmak (the ancient Halys) by the Hittites. It later came under the rule of the Assyrians, who were taken over by the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great in 546 BC. In 333 BC Alexander the Great defeated the Persians. After the collapse of his empire, the Cappadocian Kingdom was formed with Mazaka (present-day Kayseri) as capital. Nyssa became part of the Roman empire, when the Romans invaded the region in the first century BC. Centuries later it was ruled by the Byzantines.