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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Nicomedia

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

As early as 29 B. C. the cities of Pergamon in Asia and Nicomedia in Bithynia erected temples dedicated to Roma and Augustus, and established quinquennial religious festivals called Romaia Sebasta.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

Now the imperial headquarters would be at Milan in north Italy, now in what is now Serbia at Sirmium or Nish, now in Nicomedia in Asia Minor.

From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And thus the first Christian emperor died, at a palace near Nicomedia, on Whitsunday in the year 337.

From Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation by James Craigie Robertson

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