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Definitions of nicaea in various dictionaries:
noun - an ancient city in Bithynia
noun - the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images
noun - the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism
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| Site of two ecumenical councils |
| Christian Creed city |
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| Nov 10 2018 Newsday.com |
| Nov 9 2008 New York Times |
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| Now Iznik, Turkey, this city hosted an important Christian council called by Constantine in 325 |
| In 787, during Pope Adrian I's reign, the 2nd Council of this "creed" city tried to resolve the iconoclatic controversy |
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| an ancient city in Bithynia founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325 |
| An ancient city in Asia Minor, on the site of modern Iznik, which was important in Roman and Byzantine times. It was the site of two ecumenical councils of the early Christian Church (in 325 and 787). |
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Nicaea or Nicea (; Greek: , Níkaia; Turkish: znik) was an ancient city in northwestern Anatolia, and is primarily known as 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 comes from the First Council), and as the capital city of the Empire of Nicaea following the Fourth Crusade in 1204, until the recapture of Constantinople by the Byzantines in 1261. * The ancient city is located within the modern Turkish city of znik (whose modern name derives from Nicaea's), and is situated in a fertile basin at the eastern end of Lake Ascanius, bounded by ranges of hills to the north and south. It is situated with its west wall rising from the lake itself, providing both protection from siege from that direction, as well as a source of supplies which would be difficult to cut off. The lake is large enough that it could not be blockaded from the land easily, and the city was large enoug |