Nicaea

alternative Nicea · alternative Nikaia · alternative archaic Nicæa

1. historicalFormer name of Iznik: a town in Bursa Province, Turkey, famed for the 325 CE church council that composed the Nicene Creed.

   Synonyms: Antiogonia, Ancore, Helicore

2. historicalFormer name of Nice: a city in Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

   Antipolis, the "city facing" or "against," is perhaps so named in reference to its position across the bay from Nicaea.

   2023, Charles Ebel, Transalpine Gaul: The Emergence of a Roman Province, page 27

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   From this time, nothing more is heard in history of Nicaea, which continued to belong to the jurisdiction of Massilia, and, even after it came to be subject to the Romans, and included geographically in Italy, was still for municipal purposes dependent upon its parent city.

   1873, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, page 424

   Ain, the seaboard which extends from Massilia to the Varus River and to those Ligures who live in the region of the river has not only the following cities of the Massiliotes, namely, Tauroentium, Olbia, Antipolis, and Nicaea, but also [...]

   1960, The Geography of Strabo, page 191