Iznik

İznik is a town in the Region of Turkey, with a population of 22,507 in 2012. It stands at the east end of Lake İznik and is nowadays a quiet market town, but as ancient Nicaea was once a major cultural centre.
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  • Town with 22,200 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 99 metres (325 feet)
  • Description: district and town in the Province of Bursa, Turkey
  • Also known as
    “Isnik”
    “Nicaea”

Places of Interest

Highlights include First Council of Nicea and Second Council of Nicea.

Archaeological site
Photo: Coemgenus, Public domain.
The First Council of Nicaea was a council of Christian…

Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Second Council of Nicaea is recognized as the last…

Mosque
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mosque in İznik in …

Iznik

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Latitude
40.4303° or 40° 25′ 49″ north
Longitude
29.7224° or 29° 43′ 21″ east
UN/LOCODE
TR IZK
Open location code
8GGFCPJC+4W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 247991461
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
745026
Wiki­data ID
Q217125

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Iznik” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Izniku”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀντιγόνεια”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Νίκαια”
  • Arabic: “إزنيق”
  • Arabic: “إِزْنِيقُ”
  • Arabic: “قضاء إزنيق”
  • Armenian: “Իզնիկ”
  • Armenian: “Նիկեա”
  • Asturian: “İznik (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “İznik”
  • Azerbaijani: “İznik”
  • Basque: “İznik”
  • Belarusian: “Ізнік”
  • Belarusian: “Ізьнік”
  • Belarusian: “Нікея”
  • Breton: “İznik”
  • Breton: “Nicaea”
  • Bulgarian: “Изник”
  • Catalan: “İznik”
  • Catalan: “Nicea”
  • Cebuano: “İznik”
  • Chechen: “Изник”
  • Chinese: “伊兹尼克”
  • Chinese: “伊茲尼克”
  • Chinese: “尼西亞”
  • Church Slavic: “Никєѧ”
  • Croatian: “Iznik”
  • Croatian: “İznik”
  • Czech: “İznik”
  • Czech: “Nikaia”
  • Danish: “İznik”
  • Danish: “Nikæa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İznik”
  • Dutch: “İznik”
  • Dutch: “Nicaea”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ازنيق”
  • Esperanto: “İznik”
  • Esperanto: “Niceo”
  • Esperanto: “Nikeo”
  • Estonian: “İznik”
  • Finnish: “İznik”
  • Finnish: “Nikaia”
  • French: “Iznik”
  • French: “İznik”
  • French: “Nicée”
  • French: “Nikaia”
  • Gagauz: “İznik”
  • Galician: “İznik”
  • Georgian: “იზნიქი”
  • German: “Antigoneia”
  • German: “Iznik”
  • German: “İznik”
  • German: “Nicäa”
  • German: “Nikäa”
  • German: “Nizäa”
  • Gilaki: “ايزنيک”
  • Greek: “Ιζνίκ”
  • Greek: “Νίκαια”
  • Hebrew: “איזניק”
  • Hebrew: “ניקאה”
  • Hebrew: “ניקיאה”
  • Hungarian: “İznik”
  • Hungarian: “Nicea”
  • Indonesian: “İznik”
  • Indonesian: “Nicea”
  • Irish: “İznik”
  • Italian: “Antigoneia”
  • Italian: “İznik”
  • Italian: “Nicea”
  • Japanese: “イズニク”
  • Japanese: “ニカイア”
  • Korean: “이즈니크”
  • Kurdish: “Îznîk”
  • Kurdish: “İznik”
  • Kurdish: “Nicea”
  • Kurdish: “ئیزنیک”
  • Latin: “Nicaea”
  • Latvian: “Iznika”
  • Latvian: “Nīkaja”
  • Latvian: “Nīkeja”
  • Lithuanian: “Iznikas”
  • Macedonian: “Изник”
  • Malagasy: “İznik”
  • Malay: “İznik”
  • Mazanderani: “ایزنیک”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “İznik”
  • Minangkabau: “İznik”
  • Moksha: “Изник”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “İznik”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nicaea”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nicæa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nikea”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “İznik”
  • Norwegian: “İznik”
  • Persian: “ایزنیک”
  • Polish: “İznik”
  • Polish: “Nicea”
  • Polish: “Nikaia”
  • Portuguese: “Isnique”
  • Portuguese: “Iznik”
  • Portuguese: “İznik”
  • Portuguese: “Niceia”
  • Portuguese: “Nicéia”
  • Romanian: “İznik”
  • Romanian: “Niceea”
  • Russian: “Изник”
  • Scots: “İznik”
  • Serbian: “Изник”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “İznik”
  • Slovak: “İznik”
  • Slovak: “Nicaea”
  • Slovak: “Nicea”
  • Slovak: “Nikaia”
  • Slovenian: “İznik”
  • Slovenian: “Nikeja”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایزنیک”
  • Spanish: “Íznik”
  • Spanish: “İznik”
  • Spanish: “Nicea”
  • Swahili: “İznik (District)”
  • Swahili: “İznik, Bursa”
  • Swedish: “İznik”
  • Swedish: “Nicaea”
  • Swedish: “Nicæa”
  • Swedish: “Nikaea”
  • Swedish: “Nikaia”
  • Swiss German: “İznik”
  • Tajik: “Изник”
  • Tatar: “Изник”
  • Thai: “İznik (District)”
  • Thai: “Iznik”
  • Thai: “Nicaea”
  • Thai: “ไนเซีย”
  • Thai: “อิซนิค”
  • Turkish: “Bursa Iznik”
  • Turkish: “İznik”
  • Turkish: “Nicaea”
  • Turkish: “Nikaia”
  • Ukrainian: “Ізник”
  • Ukrainian: “Ізнік”
  • Urdu: “ازنیق”
  • Uzbek: “İznik”
  • Vietnamese: “İznik”
  • Waray (Philippines): “İznik”
  • Welsh: “İznik”
  • Welsh: “Nicaea”
  • Welsh: “Nicaia”
  • Welsh: “Nicea”
  • Western Mari: “Изник”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع ازنک”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊兹尼克”

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