Nicaea

[ nahy-see-uh ]

noun

1. an ancient city in NW Asia Minor: Nicene Creed formulated here a.d.

Nicaea

/ naɪˈsiːə /

noun

1. an ancient city in NW Asia Minor, in Bithynia: site of the first council of Nicaea (325 ad ), which composed the Nicene Creed Modern Turkish nameIznik

Example Sentences

As Lewis Ayres shows in his book Nicaea and its Legacy, there were numerous points of disagreement and dissent.

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Is not the age of Nicaea a good time for precedents, O purist in matters ecclesiastical?

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In 325 the first general or ecumenical council, representing theoretically the entire Christian Church, was held at Nicaea.

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The most important cities were Nicomedia and Nicaea, which disputed with one another the rank of capital.

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He was a member of the noble Bithynian family, which had furnished three emperors of Nicaea during the 13th century.

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Parthenius of Nicaea wrote a collection of short Love Romances of a very different type.

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