Nicomedia

[ nik-uh-mee-dee-uh ]

noun

1. an ancient city in NW Asia Minor, at the head of the Gulf of Astacus, in present-day Turkey: modern Izmit is on its site.

Example Sentences

Of that in Nicomedia we know nothing, save that it was splendid.

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It was thus that the residence of Diocletian at Nicomedia produced such disastrous consequences in a short time to Rome.

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Diocletian, who persecuted us, gave the example by establishing his residence at Nicomedia.

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Thence advancing through Nicomedia, Louis proceeded to Nice, and encamped under the walls of that city.

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But Nicomedia, we learn from other passages, was a city, the residence itself of the emperor.

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