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n. - An ancient city in Bithynia; The seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images;

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  • And he shall go though Turkey to the port of Chiutok and to the city of Nicaea, which is but seven miles thence.
  • Meanwhile, we came to Nicaea, which is the capital of all Romania, on the fourth day, the day before the Nones of May, and there encamped.
  • The bishops had come to Nicaea to sort out the matter.
  • DODD describes briefly the ruins of Nicaea in Bithynia ...
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