Nicomedia
Place of martyrdom · Imperial capital
ancient city of Bithynia in modern-day Turkey
Location: 40.7625, 29.9175 · Pleiades 511337
What this place is
- Imperial capital — Diocletian's eastern capital from 286, rebuilt to rival Rome, until Constantine's victory in 324 turned the east towards Byzantium
Who is recorded here
- Saint George death · AD 303
- Lucian of Antioch death · AD 312
- Saint Helena death · AD 330
- Constantine the Great death · AD 337
- Olympias the Deaconess death · AD 408
- Nicarete death · AD 440
- Nicarete birth · AD 500
What happened here
- Great Persecution AD 303
- Lactantius writes the Divine Institutes AD 310
- The martyrdom of Lucian at Nicomedia AD 312
- Licinian persecution AD 316
In art
About the place
Nicomedia was an ancient Greek city located in what is now Turkey. In 286 AD, Nicomedia became the eastern and most senior capital city of the Roman Empire, a status which the city maintained during the Tetrarchy system.
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