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Diocletian - Reorganization, Tetrarchy, Edict: At the beginning of 286, Diocletian was in Nicomedia. In the interim, he and his lieutenants had calmed the stirrings of revolt among Roman troops stationed on the frontiers. From that point on, he dedicated himself to restoring civil order to the empire by removing the army from politics. Although he came from the army’s ranks, Diocletian was ...
Nicomedia (/ ˌ n ɪ k ə ˈ m iː d i ə /; Greek: Νικομήδεια, Nikomedeia; modern İzmit) was an ancient Greek city located in what is now Turkey.In 286, Nicomedia became the eastern and most senior capital city of the Roman Empire (chosen by the emperor Diocletian who ruled in the east), a status which the city maintained during the Tetrarchy system (293–324).
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A ruler (an Augustus: Diocletian himself) was to be appointed for the East, with his capital at Nicomedia; and another for the West (Maximian); each was to have an understudy (a Caesar), who would eventually take over, having learned "on the job" by understudying his superior. Diocletian entered into the spirit of the scheme by actually ...
Feb 17, 1997 · On 1 May 305, wearied by his twenty years in office, and determined to implement his method for the imperial succession, Diocletian abdicated. He compelled his co-regent Maximianus to do the same. Constantius and Galerius then became the new Augusti , and two new Caesars were selected, Maximinus (305-313) in the east and Severus (305- 307) in ...
Diocletian made Maximian his co-Augustus, and gave him the Western Empire, while Diocletian took the Eastern Empire. Diocletian made Nicomedia his capital, and Maximian made Milan his capital. To make the two halves symbolically appear to be one, Diocletian called his territory patres Orientis, while Maximian called his territory patres Occidentis.
The painted marble reliefs of Nicomedia, excavated in the Çukurbağ neighbourhood of İzmit, are the best-preserved examples of polychrome relief sculpture in Roman art, and they represent Nicomedia when it was arguably the most powerful city in the Roman empire, the favourite city of Diocletian. Nicomedia is hidden beneath modern İzmit, and ...
[2515] Nicomedia, the capital city of Bithynia, became Diocletian's chief place of residence, and was made by him the Eastern capital of the empire. [2516] The great church of Nicomedia was destroyed on Feb. 23, 303, and the First Edict was published on the following day (see above, chap. 2, note 3).
