Dr.
Noack thought that his results confirmed Mahmud; to me, as to some others, they seem rather to yield the conclusions indicated in the text.
_Nicaea_.
Priene, Miletus, and Alexandria supply more or less well-known instances of Macedonian town-planning.

They can be reinforced by a crowd of less famous examples, attested by literature or by actual remains.

One of the most characteristic is known to us from literature, Nicaea in Bithynia, founded by one of the Macedonians in 316 B.C.and renamed by another some years later in honour of his wife Nicaea.

Strabo, writing about A.D.15, describes it and his description no doubt refers to arrangements older than the Romans.

It formed, he says, a perfect square in which each side measured four stades, a little over 800 yds.