Nicomedia (İzmit)
Q209349Nicomedia (Greek: Νικομήδεια): capital of ancient Bithynia, modern İzmit.
History
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Nicomedia, its lake and the Sangarius River - Big lake in the hinterland, connected to the river Sangarius ("famous for its large quantities of fishnote) and the interior
- Destroyed by Lysimachus
- 264 BCE: Rebuilt by Nicomedes I of Bithynia
- 91 BCE: Becomes Roman when the last Bithynian king, Nicomedes IV, bequeaths his realm to Rome
- c. 87 CE: Birthplace of Arrian
- c.110 CE: The ancient course of the Sangarius is reopened by Roman governor of Bithynia, Pliny the Younger.note
- 214: Visit by Caracalla
- 218/219: Visit by Heliogabalus
- c.255: Sacked by "Scythians"note
- Capital of Diocletian (who makes it a colonia) and Licinius, replaced by Constantinople
- As a young man, Julian the Apostate resides in Nicomedia
- 358 CE: earthquake
- sVI: expanded by Justinian
- Military base for Byzantine campaigns against the Arabs
Nicomedia, Portrait of Diocletian |
Nicomedia, Sea god |
Nicomedia, Hellenistic Funerary relief |
Nicomedia, Sarcophagus |