Nic·o·me·di·a 
(nĭk′ə-mēdē-ə)
(nĭk′ə-mēdē-ə) An ancient city of northwest Asia Minor near the Bosporus in present-day Turkey. Founded in 264 BC on the site of an earlier city, it flourished for many centuries. Around AD 286, Diocletian made Nicomedia the capital of the eastern portion of the Roman Empire, but it was soon superseded by Byzantium.
- beat brains out
- beaten
- beater
- beat/flog a dead horse
- Beat Generation
- beatific
- beatifically
- beatification
- beatify
- beating
- beat it
- beatitude
- beatnik
- beat off
- Beaton
- beat one's brains
- beat (one's) brains (out)
- beat one's brains out
- beat out
- Beatrice
- Beatrix
- beat the bushes
- beat the drum
- beat the drum/drums
- beat the drums