See FRANCE: A. D. 1532-1547. NICE: A. D. 1792. Annexation to the French Republic. See FRANCE: A. D. 1792 (SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER). NICE: A. D. 1860. Cession to France. See ITALY: A. D. 1859-1861. ----------NICE, France: End-------- NICEPHORUS I., Emperor in the East (Byzantine or Greek), A. D. 802-811. Nicephorus II., Emperor in the East (Byzantine or Greek), 963-969. Nicephorus III., Emperor in the East (Byzantine or Greek), 1078-1081. NICHOLAS, Czar of Russia, A. D. 1825-1855. Nicholas I., Pope, 858-867. Nicholas II., Pope, 1058-1061. Nicholas III., Pope, 1277-1280. Nicholas IV., Pope, 1288-1292. Nicholas V., Pope, 1447-1455. Nicholas Swendson, King of Denmark, 1103-1134. NICIAS (NIKIAS), and the Siege of Syracuse. See SYRACUSE: B. C. 415-413. NICIAS (NIKIAS), The Peace of. See GREECE: B. C. 424-421. NICOLET, Jean, Explorations of. See CANADA: A. D. 1634-1673. ----------NICOMEDIA: Start-------- NICOMEDIA: A. D. 258. Capture by the Goths. See GOTHS: A. D. 258-267. NICOMEDIA: A. D. 292-305. The court of Diocletian. "To rival the majesty of Rome was the ambition … of Diocletian, who employed his leisure, and the wealth of the east, in the embellishment of Nicomedia, a city placed on the verge of Europe and Asia, almost at an equal distance between the Danube and the Euphrates. By the taste of the monarch, and at the expense of the people, Nicomedia acquired, in the space of a few years, a degree of magnificence which might appear to have required the labour of ages, and became inferior only to Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch, in extent or populousness. … Till Diocletian, in the twentieth year of his reign, celebrated his Roman triumph, it is extremely doubtful whether he ever visited the ancient capital of the empire." _E. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter 13._ See ROME: A. D. 284-305. NICOMEDIA: A. D. 1326. Capture by the Turks. See TURKS (OTTOMAN): A. D. 1326-1359. ----------NICOMEDIA: End-------- NICOPOLIS. Augustus gave this name to a city which he founded, B. C. 31, in commemoration of the victory at Actium, on the site of the camp which his army occupied. C. Merivale, History of the Romans, chapter 28. ----------NICOPOLIS: Start-------- NICOPOLIS, Armenia, Battle of (B. C. 66). The decisive battle in which Pompeius defeated Mithridates and ended the long Mithridatic wars was fought, B. C. 66, in Lesser Armenia, at a place near which Pompeius founded a city called Nicopolis, the site of which is uncertain. _G. Long, Decline of the Roman Republic, volume 3, chapter 8._ NICOPOLIS: Battle of (B. C. 48). See ROME: B. C. 47-46. ----------NICOPOLIS, Armenia: End-------- NICOPOLIS, Bulgaria, Battle of (A. D. 1396).