Nicomedia
Bithynia
Nicomedia, modern İzmit in Kocaeli Province, northwestern Turkey, was refounded by King Nicomedes I of Bithynia in 264 BCE on the site of the older Greek colony of Astacus, and became the metropolis of Roman Bithynia. The historian Arrian, author of the Anabasis of Alexander, was a native. In 286 Diocletian made it his eastern capital; the Christian writer Lactantius taught rhetoric there at the emperor's request, and the persecution of Christians began there in 303 with the destruction of a church. Constantine died at a villa near the city in 337, and a great earthquake struck it in 358.
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