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  • Nicaea

  • Nicaea

    Nicaea or Nicea, Modern Iznik, was an ancient city located in northwestern Anatolia in Bursa Province, Turkey. It was founded in the 1st millennium BC. By the 4th century AD, Nicaea was a large and prosperous city, and a major military and administrative centre. Emperor Constantine the Great convened the First Ecumenical Council there, and the city gave its name to the Nicene Creed.
    The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, İznik.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Nicaea
    by QuartierLatin1968, CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons
    Nicaea
    by QuartierLatin1968, CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons
    Nicaea
    by QuartierLatin1968, CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Nicaea

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2014

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Turkey

    Bursa

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    First Millennium BC

    Ancient Greek

    Hellenistic + Roman + Byzantine + Islamic

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    Mixed Monuments

     

     

     

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