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CHALCEDON
, more correctly CALCIIEDON (mod
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Kadikeui), an See also:ancient maritime See also:town of See also:Bithynia, in See also:Asia See also:Minor, almost directly opposite See also:Byzantium, See also:south of See also:Scutari
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It was a Megarian See also:colony founded on a site so obviously inferior to that which was within view on the opposite See also:shore, that it received from the See also:oracle the name of " the See also:City of the See also:Blind." In its See also:early See also:history it shared the fortunes of Byzantium, was taken by the See also:satrap Otanes, vacillated See also:long between the Lacedaemonian and the Athenian interests, and was at last bequeathed to the See also:Romans by Attalus III. of See also:Pergamum (133 B.C.)
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It was partly destroyed by See also:Mithradates, but recovered during the See also:Empire, and in A.D
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451 was the seat of the See also:Fourth See also:General See also:Council
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It See also:fell under the repeated attacks of the See also:barbarian hordes who crossed over after having ravaged Byzantium, and furnished an encampment to the Persians under See also:Chosroes, c
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616-626
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The See also:Turks used it as a See also:quarry for See also:building materials for See also:Constantinople
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The site is now occupied by the See also:village of Kadikeui (" Village of the See also:Judge "), which forms the tenth " cercle " of the See also:municipality of Constantinople
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Pop. about 33,000, of whom 8000 are Moslems
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There is a large See also:British colony with a See also:
Pendik), where See also:Belisarius is said to have lived in retirement
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See J. von See also:Hammer, Constantinopolis (Pesth, 1822) ; See also: |
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