Chalcedon

Dictionary: Chal·ce·don (kăl'sĭ-dŏn', kăl-sēd'n)

An ancient Greek city of northwest Asia Minor on the Bosporus near present-day Istanbul. It was founded in 685 B.C. and passed to Rome in A.D. 74.

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Classical Literature Companion: Chalcēdon

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Chalcēdon, Megarian colony on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus opposite Byzantium, called by the Delphic Oracle ‘the city of the blind’ because its colonizers missed the then unoccupied and superior site of Byzantium across the channel.

Columbia Encyclopedia: Chalcedon

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Chalcedon (kăl'sĭdŏn, –dən, kălsē'dən) , ancient Greek city of Asia Minor, on the Bosporus. It was founded by Megara on the shore opposite Byzantium in 685 B.C. Taken by the Persians and recovered by the Greeks, it was later a possession of the kings of Bithynia, from whom it passed (A.D. 74) to Rome. The Council of Chalcedon was held there in A.D. 451. The site is in the suburbs of Istanbul.

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