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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  • Type: Town with 22,200 residents
  • Description: district and town in the Province of Bursa, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Isnik”, “İznik”, and “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 bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council of Nicaea met from May until the end of July 325.

Archaeological site
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The Second Council of Nicaea is recognized as the last of the first seven ecumenical councils by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the . In addition, it is also recognized as such by Old Catholics and others. opinions on it are varied.

Mosque
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mosque in İznik in , , was built as a Byzantine-era basilican church. Converted into the Orhan Mosque after the Ottoman conquest, it was turned into a museum in 1935.

Iznik

Latitude
40.4303° or 40° 25′ 49″ north
Longitude
29.7224° or 29° 43′ 21″ east
Population
22,200
Elevation
99 metres (325 feet)
United Nations Location Code
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: “İznik”
  • 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “İznik”
  • 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”
  • “İznik”

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