Helikore/Nicaea

settlement · 550 BC – 640 AD

Helikore/Nicaea (modern İznik, Turkey) was a Greek city of northwestern Anatolia. It was the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea and was the interim capital city of the Byzantine Empire between 1204 and 1261.

Coordinates

40.42909, 29.71468

Also known as

Helikore, Nicaea, Nicea (la), Nicea (la)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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