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- An ancient city of northwest Asia Minor near the Bosporus in present-day Turkey. Founded in 264 BC on the site of an earlier city, it flourished for many centuries. Around AD 286, Diocletian made Nicomedia the capital of the eastern portion of the Roman Empire, but it was soon superseded by Byzantium.
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- proper noun historical ancient capital of
Bithynia ; modern-day Izmit, inTurkey
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Following her death in Nicomedia around 335 A.D., her remains were returned to Rome where they were venerated in a Mausoleum in the basilica at the Via Labicana in Rome.
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Following her death in Nicomedia around 335 A.D., her remains were returned to Rome where they were venerated in a Mausoleum in the basilica at the Via Labicana in Rome.
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He it was who felt the cyclic flow, and moved his capital to Nicomedia, which is about fifty miles south and east from Constaintinople.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Then curving round in a semicircle and separating the opposite lands more widely in the round gulf of the sea of Marmora, it washes on the east Cyzicus, and Dindyma, the holy seat of the mighty mother Cybele, and Apamia, and Cius, and Astacus afterwards called Nicomedia from the
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851
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Astacus, a city in Bithynia, also called Nicomedia, 287
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851
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Whether Helena accompanied Constantine to Nicomedia is unclear, but there is certainly no evidence of any contact between them.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Having finally dedicated his new capital of Constantinople on the site of the old city of Byzantium in 330, he spent much of his last seven years in power there before dying in an imperial villa in Nicomedia on 22 May 337, shortly after being officially baptized into the Christian faith he had championed.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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E. D. Hunt 1982, 30 suggests she would have accompanied her son to Nicomedia, however.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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And thus Duke Godfrey went first to Nicomedia, together with Tancred and all the rest, and they were there for three days.
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At the age of seven, Julian was placed under the guardianship of Eusebius of Nicomedia my own legal guardianship commenced at that age and the semi-Arian Christian Bishop of Nicomedia.
Julian 1st…Caesar of Rome! Past life experience… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008
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