The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromνῑ́κη“victory”
- Medieval Greek · derived fromΝῑ́καια
- Turkish · derived fromİznik
- Ottoman Turkish · derived fromازنیق
- English todayIznik
From Ottoman Turkish ازنیق (İznik) and Turkish İznik, from Medieval Greek Νῑ́καια (Nī́kaia), named for Nicaea wife of Lysimachus, from Ancient Greek νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, “-ia: forming feminine names”). Doublet of Nice and Nicaea.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.