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Nicaea
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Nicaea (also spelled Nicæa or Nicea, ; ), also known as Nikaia (, Attic: , Koine: ) or Nice ( or ), was an ancient Greek city in the northwestern Anatolian region of Bithynia.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Nicaea
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Nikaia
- Ancient site.caption
- Ruins of the Roman Theatre Byzantine-era city wall • Lefke Gate Orhan Mosque (formerly Hagia Sophia)
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey Marmara#Turkey
- Ancient site.location
- İznik, Bursa Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- Bithynia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.cultures
- Ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman
- Ancient site.event
- First and Second Council of Nicaea
- Ancient site.builder
- Antigonus I Monophthalmus
- Ancient site.built
- – 315 BC
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Νίκαια
- Image
- Nicaea theatre 990.jpg
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- Νίκαια
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20 sectionsContents
- History
- Early history
- Roman period
- Christian Councils
- Byzantine period
- Ottoman Empire
- Ruins
- City walls
- Inner city structures
- Church of the Dormition
- Ottoman kilns
- Hagia Sophia church
- Underwater basilica
- Herakles relief
- See of Nicaea
- People
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
Nicaea (also spelled Nicæa or Nicea, ; ), also known as Nikaia (, Attic: , Koine: ) or Nice ( or ), was an ancient Greek city in the northwestern Anatolian region of Bithynia.
It was the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea (the first and seventh Ecumenical councils in the early history of the Christian Church). The Nicene Creed, which was composed at the First Council, takes its name from the city. It was also the capital city of the Empire of Nicaea following the Fourth Crusade in 1204, until the recapture of Constantinople by the Byzantines in 1261. Nicaea was also the capital of the Ottomans from 1331 to 1335.
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