See also:

• NICOMEDIA [mod. Ismid]

NICOMEDIA [mod. See also:

• ISMID, or ISNIKMID (anc. Nicomedia)

Ismid]  , an See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• TOWN

town at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the Gulf of Astacus, which opens on the Propontis, was built in 264 B.C. by Nicomedes I. of See also:

• BITHYNIA (BtOvpta)

Bithynia, and has ever since been bne of the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief towns in this See also:

• PART

part of See also:

• ASIA

Asia See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor . It was the See also:

• METROPOLIS (Gr. piir17Pi mother, srGXis, city)

metropolis of Bithynia under the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• EMPIRE

empire (see See also:

• NICAEA, COUNCIL OF
• NICAEA, or NICE

NICAEA), and See also:

• DIOCLETIAN (GAIUs AURELIUS VALERIUS DIOCLETIANUS) (A.D. 245–313)
• DIOCLETIAN, EDICT OF (De Pretiis rerum venalium)

Diocletian made it the chief See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East . Owing to its position at the convergence of the See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic roads to the new See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital, See also:

• NICOMEDIA [mod. Ismid]

Nicomedia retained its importance even after the See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of See also:

• CONSTANTINOPLE
• CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

Constantinople and its own See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture by the See also:

• TURKS

Turks (1338) . See C . Texier, Asie mineure (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1839) ; V . Cuenet, Turquie d'Asie (Paris, 1894) .