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Nicea

Nicea is the alternative form of Nicaea.

Meaning of Nicaea

Proper noun

Nicaea

  1. (historical) Former name of Iznik: a town in Bursa Province, Turkey, famed for the 325 CE church council that composed the Nicene Creed.
    Synonyms:
    Antiogonia, Ancore, Helicore
  2. (historical) Former name of Nice: a city in Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
    • From this time, nothing more is heard in history of Nicaea, which continued to belong to the jurisdiction of Massilia, and, even after it came to be subject to the Romans, and included geographically in Italy, was still for municipal purposes dependent upon its parent city.1873, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, page 424

Questions about Nicea

What is Nicea the alternative form of?
Nicea is the alternative form of Nicaea.

Words near Nicea in the dictionary

  1. nice-nellyism
  2. nice-nellyisms
  3. nice-nice
  4. nice-to-have
  5. nice-to-haves
  6. Nicea
  7. Nicean
  8. Niceans
  9. niced
  10. nicefem
  11. nicefems

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