Nicaea

Nicaea

Nicaea ranks 1,738th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sandefjord, Malé, and La Spezia. Memorable people born in Nicaea include Hipparchus, Cassius Dio, and Andronikos II Palaiologos. Memorable people who died in Nicaea include Cassius Dio, Robert I, Duke of Normandy, and Niketas Choniates. Nicaea has been the birth place of many politicians, and astronomers and the death place of many historians, and religious figures. Nicaea is located in Türkiye.

Nicaea, also known as Nikaia, was an ancient Greek city in the north-western Anatolian region of Bithynia that is primarily known as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea, the Nicene Creed, and as the capital city of the Empire of Nicaea following the Fourth Crusade in 1204, until the recapture of Constantinople by the Byzantines in 1261. Nicaea was also the capital of the Ottomans from 1331 to 1335. Read more on Wikipedia