Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Bithynia | Yes | No | No | No |
Nicaea | Yes | No | No | No |
Bithynia (noun) | Nicaea (noun) |
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an ancient country in northwestern Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; was absorbed into the Roman Empire by the end of the 1st century BC | the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism |
the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images | |
an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325 |