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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, See also:

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

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