Nicae
Νίκη
Nicae, NICE (Νίκη), or NICAEA (Νίκαια), a town of Thrace, not far from Adrianople, the scene of the defeat and death of the emperor Valens by the Goths in A.D. 378. (Amm. Marcell. 31.13; Cedren. ii. p. 183; Sozom. 4.19; Theoph. p. 772.) It has been variously identified with Kuleli and Kululeu.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.