Nicomedia (İzmit District)

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The area of ancient Hellenistic, Roman, and medieval Nicomedia (Nikomedeia). It served as the capital of the kingdom and later province of Bithynia, and was at one point the preferred imperial residence of the Roman emperor Diocletian (284-305). The city was conquered and transformed by the Ottoman Turks in 1337. Generally speaking, little remains of the pre-Ottoman city and its defenses, and only the northern course of the walls can be traced with certainty over any significant length. The outline is based on the maps and plans in Clive Foss, Survey of Medieval Castles of Anatolia II: Nicomedia, The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Monograph no. 21, 1996.
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Coordinates:   40°46'3"N   29°55'17"E
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