Nicomedia

American  

[nik-uh-mee-dee-uh] / ˌnɪk əˈmi di ə /

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.

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Example Sentences

There were several martyred Gorgoniuses in the Catholic lists; the likeliest candidate for ours is St. Gorgonius of Nicomedia.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2022

Abbe noted that a set of Roman historical friezes recently found in Nicomedia, Turkey, are “awash in purple.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018

Accordingly the leaders of the council, the most conspicuous of whom were Eusebius of Nicomedia and his namesake of Caesarea, were summoned to Constantinople.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

He took Nicomedia in 1327 and Nicaea in 1333, with all the surrounding territory, so that Andronicus retained nothing but Chalcedon and the district immediately facing Constantinople beyond the Bosphorus.

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick

Both of them now sleep far away from their native land in the valley of Nicomedia.

From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r