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CHALCEDON , more correctly CALCIIEDON (mod. Kadikeui), an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia
Minor , almost directly opposite Byzantium, south
long between the Lacedaemonian and the Athenian interests, and was at last bequeathed to the Romans by Attalus III. of Pergamum (133 B.C.). It was partly destroyed by Mithradates
Constantinople . The site is now occupied by the village
Village
Constantinople . Pop. about 33,000, of whom 8000 are Moslems. There is a large British colony with a church, and ' also Greek and Armenian churches and schools, and a training college for Roman Catholic Armenians. To the S. are the ruins of Panteichion (mod. Pendik), where Belisarius is said to have lived in retirement.See J. von Hammer
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