🏛️ Nicaea-Juliopolis
Roman and Byzantine city ruins near İznik, northwestern Turkey
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in Bursa Province, 240 km southeast of Istanbul
- Founded as Nicaea by Antigonus I Monophthalmus (301 BCE); renamed Juliopolis under Roman rule
- Site of the First Ecumenical Council (325 CE), a foundational Christian synod
- Partially preserved within the medieval walled city of İznik
Nicaea-Juliopolis was a significant Hellenistic and Roman settlement on the eastern shore of Lake Iznik (Ascania). The city ...