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In Greek mythology, Nicaea (/ n aɪ ˈ s iː ə / nye-SEE-ə) or Nikaia (Ancient Greek: Νίκαια, romanized: Níkaia, pronounced [nǐːkai̯a]) is a Naiad nymph ("the Astacid nymph", as referred to by Nonnus) of the springs or fountain of the ancient Greek colony of Nicaea in Bithynia (in northwestern Asia Minor) or else the goddess of the adjacent lake Ascanius.
Nicaea (also spelled Nicæa or Nicea, / n aɪ ˈ s iː ə / ny-SEE-ə; [9] Latin: [niːˈkae̯.a]), also known as Nikaia (Ancient Greek: Νίκαια, Attic: [nǐːkai̯a], Koine:), was an ancient Greek city in the north-western Anatolian region of Bithynia [4] [10] [11] that is primarily known as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea (the first and seventh Ecumenical councils in ...
Bithynia also contained Nicaea, noted for being the birthplace of the Nicene Creed. According to Strabo , Bithynia was bounded on the east by the river Sangarius (modern Sakarya river ), but the more commonly received division extended it to the Parthenius , which separated it from Paphlagonia , thus comprising the district inhabited by the ...
Adramyttium was recovered by the Empire of Nicaea, a successor state of the Byzantine Empire, later that year. Nicaea maintained control of the city until 1211. [44] Henry of Flanders regained Adramyttium in October 1211 after his victory over the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris at the Battle of the Rhyndacus. [45]
After going back to the drawing board, the cofounders scraped through all words with “NV” in them, until Huang suggested Nvidia, riffing on the Latin word invidia, meaning “envy.”
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The two young daughters of Kamala Harris’ niece Meena Harris helped actress Kerry Washington deliver a tutorial on pronouncing the […]
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, the "most probable" etymology is the one proposed by B. Hemmerdinger in 1969, according to which the name derives from the Persian word Lashkarī (لشگری, also Arabic: عسکری, ʿaskarī), meaning "warrior, soldier". However, this interpretation is open to question since "the first known ...