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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Harmancık İnegöl İznik Karacabey Keles Kestel Mudanya Mustafakemalpaşa Nilüfer Orhaneli Orhangazi Osmangazi Yenişehir Yıldırım City of Bursa İznik List of populated...

İhsaniye is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of İznik, Bursa Province in Turkey. Its population is 48 (2022). Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration...

Bayındır is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of İznik, Bursa Province in Turkey. Its population is 189 (2022). Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration...

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...

cities located in present-day Turkey, including the First Council of Nicaea (Iznik) in 325 (which resulted in the first uniform Christian doctrine, called...

Osmaniye is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of İznik, Bursa Province in Turkey. Its population is 90 (2022). Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration...

Green Mosque (Turkish: Yeşil Camii) is a historic Ottoman mosque in İznik, Turkey. One of the earliest examples of Ottoman architecture, the Yeşil Mosque...

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...

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...

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...

İznik İznik Ultramarathon, shortly İznik Ultra, is an international trail running ultramarathon event that takes place at İznik town of Bursa Province...

(formerly İlbeyli) is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of İznik, Bursa Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,267 (2022). Before the 2013...

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...

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...

Çandarlı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of İznik, Bursa Province in Turkey. Its population is 139 (2022). Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration...

(Dardanelles) and Gelibolu (Gallipoli) Battles Zones in the First World War İznik Nuruosmaniye Complex Sultan Bayezid II Complex: A Center of Medical Treatment...

attributed to an early stage of Iznik tilework, is evidenced by the late 15th century and characterizes the early 16th century. Iznik tiles became highly favoured...

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...

and İznik porcelain from the 17th century. The panel representing Mecca or Medina, signed by Osman İznikli Mehmetoğlu, represents a new style in İznik tiles...

1081, he gained control of the Byzantine cities of Nicaea (present-day İznik) and briefly also Nicomedia (present-day İzmit). Around two years later...

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...

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...

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...