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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 802 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHALCEDON , more correctly CALCIIEDON (mod. Kadikeui), an See also:

ancient maritime See also:town of See also:Bithynia, in See also:Asia See also:Minor, almost directly opposite See also:Byzantium, See also:south of See also:Scutari. It was a Megarian See also:colony founded on a site so obviously inferior to that which was within view on the opposite See also:shore, that it received from the See also:oracle the name of " the See also:City of the See also:Blind." In its See also:early See also:history it shared the fortunes of Byzantium, was taken by the See also:satrap Otanes, vacillated See also:long between the Lacedaemonian and the Athenian interests, and was at last bequeathed to the See also:Romans by Attalus III. of See also:Pergamum (133 B.C.). It was partly destroyed by See also:Mithradates, but recovered during the See also:Empire, and in A.D. 451 was the seat of the See also:Fourth See also:General See also:Council. It See also:fell under the repeated attacks of the See also:barbarian hordes who crossed over after having ravaged Byzantium, and furnished an encampment to the Persians under See also:Chosroes, c. 616-626. The See also:Turks used it as a See also:quarry for See also:building materials for See also:Constantinople. The site is now occupied by the See also:village of Kadikeui (" Village of the See also:Judge "), which forms the tenth " cercle " of the See also:municipality of Constantinople. Pop. about 33,000, of whom 8000 are Moslems. There is a large See also:British colony with a See also:church, and ' also See also:Greek and Armenian churches and See also:schools, and a training See also:college for See also:Roman See also:Catholic Armenians. To the S. are the ruins of Panteichion (mod.

Pendik), where See also:

Belisarius is said to have lived in retirement. See J. von See also:Hammer, Constantinopolis (Pesth, 1822) ; See also:Murray's Handbook for Constantinople (See also:London, 1900).

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