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NICOMEDES I

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 664 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICOMEDES I  ., son of Zipoetes,

king of Bithynia (c . 278-248 B.c.) . He made himself master of the whole country and put to
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death his
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brother, who had set himself up as an
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independent ruler . He enlarged and consolidated the
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kingdom, founded the
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great city of Nicomedia as the capital, and fought successfully for some time with
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Antiochus of
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Syria . His reign seems to have been prosperous and uneventful; the
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year of his death is uncertain . Livy xxxviii . 16; Justin
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xxv . 2;
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Memnon in C . Muller, Frag. hist . Graec. iii . 535 .

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