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NICAEA, or NICE [mod. Isnik, i.e. Eis NucaiavI an ancient town of Asia
Minor , in Bithynia, on the Lake Ascania. Antigonus built the city (316 B.C. ?) on an old deserted site, and soon after-wards Lysimachus changed its name from Antigonia to Nicaea, calling it after his wife. Under the Roman empire Nicaea and Nicomedia
monument in the centre of the city all the four gates were visible at the extremities of great
cross
Constantinople became the capital of the empire Nicaea grew in importance, and after the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders became the temporary seat of the Byzantine emperor; the double
village
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