Izmit

Izmit some of the time Kocaeli, known as Nicomedia in ancient history, is a city in Turkey, the managerial focus of the Kocaeli Province and in addition the Metropolitan Municipality. It is situated at the Gulf of Izmit in the Sea of Marmara, around 100 km or 62 mi east of Istanbul, on the northwestern piece of Anatolia. The downtown area has a populace of 300,611 in 2011 enumeration. The number of inhabitants in the region counting rustic regions is 1,459,772. In contrast to different territories in Turkey, aside from Istanbul, the entire territory is incorporated inside the region of the metropolitan focus.

Nicomedia was the eastern and most senior capital city of the Roman Empire somewhere in the range of 286 and 324, amid the Tetrarchy presented by Diocletian. Following Constantine the Great's triumph over co-ruler Licinius at the Battle of Chrysopolis in 324, Nicomedia filled in as a between time capital city for Nova Roma.