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Iznik

British  
/ ɪzˈnɪk /

noun

  1. the modern Turkish name of Nicaea

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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We also have the Iznik kilns in Turkey, which are still operating today, and influences into Southeast Asia, and so on.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

Although its newly-developed AI-powered "TraceART" system was not involved in recovering the Marcus Aurelius statue, the tool helped identify two 16th-century Iznik tiles that were recovered from Britain this month.

From Barron's Mar. 20, 2026

Leo is due to visit Iznik, as Nicaea is now called, on Friday together with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the most senior bishop in Eastern Orthodoxy.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 27, 2025

A key moment of the trip will take place in the Turkish town of Iznik, the site of the ancient city of Nicaea.

From BBC Nov. 26, 2025

Nicean: Nicaea, the modern Iznik in Turkey, was anciently a Greek province.

From Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier by Margaret Spraque Carhart

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