Nicium
Νικίου μητρόπολις
Nicium or NICIU (Νικίου μητρόπολις, Ptol. 4.5.9), a principal town in the Nomos Prosopites of Lower Aegypt, lay just above Momemphis and nearly midway between Memphis and Alexandreia. It was one of the military stations on the main road between those cities which ran nearly parallel with the Canopic arm of the Nile. [PROSOPITIS.]
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.