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NICOMEDIA [mod. Ismid]

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 665 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICOMEDIA [mod. See also:Ismid] , an See also:ancient See also:town at the See also:head of the Gulf of Astacus, which opens on the Propontis, was built in 264 B.C. by Nicomedes I. of See also:Bithynia, and has ever since been bne of the See also:chief towns in this See also:part of See also:Asia See also:Minor. It was the See also:metropolis of Bithynia under the See also:Roman See also:empire (see See also:NICAEA), and See also:Diocletian made it the chief See also:city of the See also:East. Owing to its position at the convergence of the See also:Asiatic roads to the new See also:capital, Nicomedia retained its importance even after the See also:foundation of See also:Constantinople and its own See also:capture by the See also:Turks (1338). See C. Texier, Asie mineure (See also:Paris, 1839) ; V. Cuenet, Turquie d'Asie (Paris, 1894).

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