Nicomedia (/ˌnɪkəˈmiːdiə/; Greek: Νικομήδεια, Nikomedeia; modern İzmit) was an ancient Greek city located in what is now Turkey. In 286, Nicomedia became...

list of saints. According to the hagiographies, Barbara was born either in Heliopolis or in Nicomedia, the daughter of a rich pagan named Dioscorus who...

Armourers - George Arms dealers - Adrian of Nicomedia Art dealers - John the Evangelist Artillerymen - Barbara Artists - Luke the Evangelist, Philip Neri...

in 312, finally becoming a Christian and being baptised by Eusebius of Nicomedia, an Arian bishop, although the Catholic Church and the Coptic Orthodox...

Arrian of Nicomedia 1884, pp. 134–135, XXV. The offers of Darius rejected—Batis, Governor of Gaza, refuses to Submit. Arrian of Nicomedia 1884, pp. 137...

church, namely Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret of Antioch, Barbara of Nicomedia and Dorothea of Caesarea, is called "the four capital virgins", three...

Euphrosyne of Alexandria Blessed Anastasia Blessed Theodota Saint Natalia of Nicomedia Saint Afra Several ladies who served the Apostles: Drusiana, Susanna,...

the history of the empire. He established new administrative centers in Nicomedia, Mediolanum, Sirmium, and Trevorum, closer to the empire's frontiers than...

Saint Barbara") is a mystery play in Middle Breton verse on the life and miracles of the martyr Saint Barbara, daughter of King Dioscurus of Nicomedia. It...

(including powerful and influential Arian churchmen led by Eusebius of Nicomedia), he struggled against the Emperors Constantine, Constantius II, Julian...

Balor, in Irish myth. Inspiration may come from the story of Saint Barbara of Nicomedia, who is said to have been a beautiful woman who was confined to a...

of the Hellespont, the emperor and his court established themselves at Nicomedia in Bithynia during the winter of 213/4. Caracalla's mother, Julia Domna...

calendar with a feast day she shares with Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara of Nicomedia on 24 November. Margaret of Antioch is a patroness of pregnant women...

during this period, as evidenced by the choice of Diocletian to rule from Nicomedia in Asia Minor, putting his second in command, Maximian, in Milan. This...

Asia and Bithynia. He spent the winter of 214/215 in Nicomedia. By 4 April 215 he had left Nicomedia, and in the summer he was in Antioch on the Orontes...

his mother's death, George travelled to the eastern imperial capital, Nicomedia, where he was persecuted by one Dadianus. In later versions of the Greek...

important holy virgin martyrs of Christianity (Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara of Nicomedia, Margaret of Antioch and Dorothea of Caesarea). Peckes and her female...

Saint Catald Craco – Vincenzo Martyr Cuneo – Michael Fabriano – Adrian of Nicomedia Ferrara – George Florence – John the Baptist, Joseph, Zenobius Fonte Nuova...

at Bethlehem". www.oca.org. Retrieved 2024-07-19. "20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia". www.oca.org. Retrieved 2024-02-16. "100,000 Martyrs of Tbilisi by the...

Constantine's strengths – Constantine had been his guest for some time at Nicomedia – and knew that Constantius' legions were wildly devoted to his son. Therefore...

as his divinely-sent soulmate. Barnes calls attention to an epitaph at Nicomedia of one of Aurelian's protectors, which could indicate the emperor's presence...

Asia Minor, they began to pillage towns and villages until they reached Nicomedia, where an argument broke out between the Germans and Italians on one side...

Alechinsky René Magritte Jacob Smits Gustave Van de Woestijne Rik Wouters Saint Barbara of Nicomedia by Jan van Eyck. 1437 Virgin and Child Surrounded...

Elagabalus and his entourage spent the winter of 218–219 in Bithynia at Nicomedia, and then traveled through Thrace and Moesia to Italy in the first half...

283 and attended Diocletian's election as emperor on 20 November 284 at Nicomedia. Maximian's swift appointment by Diocletian as Caesar is taken by the...

the porterie, the chevet and the transept. Retable of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia (1515), oil on oak panel, left panel 75 cm by 33.5 cm, acquired in 1856...

cities (notably Mediolanum and Ravenna in the West and Nicomedia in the East), Rome remained the de jure capital of the entire Roman Empire. In 330, Emperor...

a succession of favourites, beginning with Saoterus, a freedman from Nicomedia who had become his chamberlain. Dissatisfaction with this state of affairs...

the Appian Way (c. 304) — found in Roman Martyrology 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia (304–305) Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (320) Martyrs of Persia under Shapur...

"Byzantine emperor". It was he who moved the imperial capital in 324 from Nicomedia to Byzantium, which re-founded as Constantinople, or Nova Roma ("New Rome")...