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Nicaea
[ nahy-see-uh ]
noun
- an ancient city in NW Asia Minor: Nicene Creed formulated here a.d.
Nicaea
/ naɪˈsiːə /
noun
- 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
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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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