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İznik (Turkish pronunciation:) is a municipality and district of Bursa Province, Turkey. [2] Its area is 753 km 2 , [ 3 ] and its population 44,236 (2022). [ 1 ] The town is at the site of the ancient Greek city of Nicaea , from which the modern name derives.
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 of the 15th century until the end of the 17th century.
Hagia Sophia mosque (lit. 'the Holy Wisdom'; Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized: Hagía Sophía; Turkish: Ayasofya) in İznik in Bursa Province, Turkey, was built as a Byzantine-era basilican church. [1] Converted into the Orhan Mosque (Turkish: Orhan Camii) after the Ottoman conquest, it was turned into a museum in 1935.
Place of creation: Iznik, Turkey: Object history: Collected by Frederick DuCane Godman: Credit line: Bequeathed by Miss Edith Godman in 1983: References (1989) Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London: Alexandra Press ISBN: 978-1-85669-054-6. .
Nicaea's Byzantine fortifications, Iznik, Turkey: Date: 16 October 2017, 14:04 (according to Exif data) Source: Nicaea's Byzantine fortifications, Iznik, Turkey: Author: Carole Raddato from Frankfurt, Germany
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Basilica 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 shore. Coordinates: 40.4258225,29.7095841 visible just off shore.
According to the inscriptive plaque (kitabe) above a window, the mosque was built by Haci Özbek bin Muhammed in the year 1333 (734 A.H.), two years after the Ottoman conquest of İznik by the Ottoman sultan Orhan I. [2] The building is a single-unit mosque composed of a square hall crowned with a dome, which is eight metres (26 ft) in diameter.