Astacus

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see Nicomedia.

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Nicomedia - ancient city, NW Asia Minor, near the Bosphorus, in present-day Turkey. Refounded (264 B.C.) by Nicomedes I of Bithynia to replace Astacus as his capital, it flourished for centuries. The Goths sacke...