a town of Asia Minor, the ancient Nice, which now contains scarcely 300 houses, yet exhibits numerous monuments of ancient grandeur. It is situated on a lake communicating with the Sea of Marmora, and carries on This place is famous in ecclesiastical history, as the seat of two councils, in 325 and 387. During the period of the crusades, it became the capital of a kingdom erected along the coast of Asia Minor. The old walls of the town may be still traced over a circumference of four miles. Lat. 46° 16' N.; Long. 29° 50' E.