İznik
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3 English words in this atlas trace back to İznik. It sits in Turkey.
The creed recited every Sunday is named after two towns now in Turkey.
Nicaea is modern İznik, a lakeside town in Bursa Province better known today for its tiles, and Constantinople is Istanbul. The double name records the two councils that produced the text most churches still recite.
A creed recited worldwide is named for a Turkish town now famous for tiles.
Nicaea, where Constantine summoned the bishops, is the modern İznik in northwestern Turkey, celebrated since the sixteenth century for its ceramics. The text most churches actually recite is the expanded version agreed at Constantinople in 381, so even the name is only half right.
The creed shared by most of Christianity is named for a Turkish tile town.
Bishops summoned by Constantine met in 325 at Nicaea, now İznik in northwestern Turkey, and a council at Constantinople revised the wording in 381 into the text recited today. İznik later became famous for its ceramics, and the lakeside site of the council is now a quiet provincial town.