Nicomedia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss
Creators: C. Foss
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Francis Deblauwe, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Eric Kansa, Brady Kiesling, H. Kopp, W. Röllig, B. Siewert-Mayer, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt
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Last modified
Jun 06, 2018 07:24 PM
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History
Nicomedia was founded in 712/11 BC as a Megarian colony named Astacus and was rebuilt by Nicomedes I of Bithynia in 264 BC. The city was an important administrative center of the Roman Empire.
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http://3.22.44.247/places/511337
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- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARMC location 23979 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Ismid (unspecified date range)
- Kocaeli (Turkish, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- Nicomedia (330 BC - AD 640)
- Nikomedeia (Ancient Greek, AD 1081 - AD 1204)
- Nikomedia (AD 1683 - AD 1918)
- Nikomēdeia (Ancient Greek, 1200 BC - AD 1918)
- Nikomēdia (unspecified date range)
- Niqumūdiya (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 650 - AD 940)
- Olbia (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 226)
- İzmid (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1513 - AD 1918)
- İzmit (Turkish, 1750 BC - AD 2000)
- İznikmid (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1918)
- İznikmit (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1453 - AD 1683)
- İzniḳmid (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1300 - AD 1453)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 52 F3 Nicomedia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: İzmit
C. Foss, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Francis Deblauwe, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Eric Kansa, Brady Kiesling, H. Kopp, W. Röllig, B. Siewert-Mayer, R. Talbert, and Johan Åhlfeldt, 'Nicomedia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <http://3.22.44.247/places/511337> [accessed: 05 July 2025]
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