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IntersectionLieuAntiquité–XVIIIe siècle

Region: Turquie (Anatolie du Nord-Ouest)

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İznik (ancient Nicaea) is a city in northwestern Anatolia in Turkey, famous for the ecumenical councils held there. A Jewish presence is attested from the Byzantine period through the Ottoman era, bearing witness to the continuity of Jewish communities in this region.

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The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document İznik (Nicée) give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Sources & resources

  • Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic WorldBrill
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica2e éd., Keter/Macmillan

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