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Nicaea

noun

An ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325.

The seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images. Synonym: Second Council of Nicaea.

The first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism. Synonym: First Council of Nicaea.

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... years they again returned, rebuilt Aleria, which they fortified, and endeavoured to maintain their ground against the natives. After a struggle of some years they were again compelled to leave the island. The next foreign occupants of Corsica were the Tuscans, who founded the city of Nicaea, but they in their turn were compelled to give way before the growing maritime power of the Carthaginians, whose jurisdiction in the island was unquestioned till the beginning of the first Punic War. ...

— Itinerary through Corsica - by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads • Charles Bertram Black

... who would have felt that he was a traitor, and no true man, had he not rendered the homage of fealty to the unhappy lady who was his rightful sovereign. And one of these was Raymond Warde, whose great-grandfather had ridden with Robert the Devil to Jerusalem, and had been with him when he died in Nicaea; and his grandsire had been in the thick of the press at Hastings, with William of Normandy, wherefore he had received the lands and lordship of Stoke Regis in Hertfordshire; and his name is on Battle Abbey ...

— Via Crucis • F. Marion Crawford

Words linked to "Nicaea" : ecumenical council, metropolis, urban center, city, Bithynia