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NICAEA, or NICE

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 640 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICAEA, or See also:NICE [mod. Isnik, i.e. Eis NucaiavI an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Asia See also:Minor, in See also:Bithynia, on the See also:Lake Ascania. Antigonus built the See also:city (316 B.C. ?) on an old deserted site, and soon after-wards See also:Lysimachus changed its name from Antigonia to Nicaea, calling it after his wife. Under the See also:Roman See also:empire Nicaea and See also:Nicomedia disputed the See also:title of See also:metropolis of Bithynia. See also:Strabo describes the ancient Nicaea as built regularly, in the See also:form of a square, with a See also:gate in the See also:middle of each See also:side. From a, See also:monument in the centre of the city all the four See also:gates were visible at the extremities of See also:great See also:cross-streets. After See also:Constantinople became the See also:capital of the empire Nicaea See also:grew in importance, and after the See also:conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders became the temporary seat of the See also:Byzantine See also:emperor; the See also:double See also:line of walls with the Roman gates is still well preserved. The See also:possession of the city was See also:long disputed between the Greeks and the See also:Turks. It remained an important city for some See also:time after its final See also:incorporation in the See also:Ottoman empire; but became subsequently an insignificant See also:village.

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