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    İznik (Turkish pronunciation: [izˈnik]) is a municipality and district of Bursa Province, Turkey. Its area is 753 km2, and its population is 44,236 (2022)...
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    Iznik pottery, or Iznik ware, named after the town of İznik in Anatolia where it was made, is a decorated ceramic that was produced from the last quarter...
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    Sophia in İznik Exterior of Hagia Sophia in İznik Opus sectile floor in entrance of Hagia Sophia in İznik Interior of Hagia Sophia in Iznik Synthronon...
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    Lake İznik (Turkish: İznik Gölü) is a freshwater lake in the Province of Bursa, Turkey. It is around 32 km in length and 10 km in width with a maximum...
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    architecture) as it relied heavily on İznik tiling instead of favouring a more sparse interior. The Anatolian town of İznik was the heart of the Ottoman ceramics...
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  • The İznik shemaya (Alburnus nicaeensis) was a species of freshwater cyprinid fish that was endemic to Lake İznik in Turkey. It has not been found since...
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    to 1335. The ancient city is located within the modern Turkish city of İznik (whose modern name derives from Nicaea's), and is situated in a fertile...
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    Harmancık İnegöl İznik Karacabey Keles Kestel Mudanya Mustafakemalpaşa Nilüfer Orhaneli Orhangazi Osmangazi Yenişehir Yıldırım City of Bursa İznik List of populated...
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    cities located in present-day Turkey, including the First Council of Nicaea (Iznik) in 325 (which resulted in the first uniform Christian doctrine, called...
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  • of Saint Neophytos is the name of a defunct, underwater basilica in Lake İznik, modern-day Turkey. Coordinates: 40.4258225,29.7095841 visible just off...
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  • İhsaniye is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of İznik, Bursa Province in Turkey. Its population is 48 (2022). Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration...
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  • June 1453. His execution followed on 10 July 1453 and he was buried in İznik in an open tomb without a roof unlike his ancestors. Mehmed II thus ended...
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    Çandarlı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of İznik, Bursa Province in Turkey. Its population is 139 (2022). Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration...
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    İznik İznik Ultramarathon, shortly İznik Ultra, is an international trail running ultramarathon event that takes place at İznik town of Bursa Province...
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  • Elmalı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of İznik, Bursa Province in Turkey. Its population is 340 (2022). Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration...
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    around the galleries, are covered in Iznik tiles, a style of tilework named after their main production center, İznik (ancient Nicaea). Ahmed I had a great...
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    Green Mosque (Turkish: Yeşil Camii) is a historic Ottoman mosque in İznik, Turkey. One of the earliest examples of Ottoman architecture, the Yeşil Mosque...
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    also saw the apogee of certain decorative arts, most notably in the use of Iznik tiles. Beginning in the 18th century, Ottoman architecture was influenced...
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    council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council of Nicaea met from...
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    Taylor, Jane (2007). Imperial Istanbul: A Traveller's Guide: Includes Iznik, Bursa and Edirne. New York: Tauris Parke Paperbacks. ISBN 978-1-84511-334-6...
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    becoming a major center of patronage and construction. Orhan also captured İznik in 1331, turning it into another early center of Ottoman art. In this early...
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    hall is also decorated with rectangular Iznik tile window lunettes. It was the first building in which the Iznik tiles included the brightly coloured tomato-red...
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    Iznik tiles, many of them showing the characteristic sealing-wax red glaze known as Armenian bole and dating from around 1580, a highpoint for İznik tile...
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    (formerly İlbeyli) is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of İznik, Bursa Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,267 (2022). Before the 2013...
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    İnegöl İznik Aydınlar, İznik Bayındır, İznik Boyalıca, İznik Candarlı, İznik Çakırca, İznik Çamdibi, İznik Çamoluk, İznik Çiçekli, İznik Derbent, İznik Dereköy...
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    (Dardanelles) and Gelibolu (Gallipoli) Battles Zones in the First World War İznik Nuruosmaniye Complex Sultan Bayezid II Complex: A Center of Medical Treatment...
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  • Çiçekli is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of İznik, Bursa Province in Turkey. Its population is 754 (2022). Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration...
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    bore Orhan a son, the future Murad I. After 1331, she was transferred to Iznik together with her son. In March 1362, Orhan died and was succeeded as sultan...
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    the Early Ottoman period, when brightly coloured, mainly blue-and-white Iznik-style tiles were applied to the exterior, and again in the modern period...
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  • Yesemek Odunpazarı Mamure Castle Haji Bektash Laodicea Lake Tuz Sardis İznik St. Jacob of Nisibis Ahi Evran Tomb Titus Tunnel Kültepe Kaunos Corycus...
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