00899nam a2200181Ia 4500 230822s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97809176534830917653483 eng DF626 .F67 1996 Foss, Clive Nicaea : a byzantine capital and its praises/ Clive Foss Brookline, Mass. : Hellenic College Press, 1996 ix, 224 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. Archbishop Iakovos library of ecclesiastical and historical sources, no. 21 Includes Greek and English parallel text of: Enkomion eis ten megalopolin Nikaian = In praise of the great city of Nicaea / Theodore Doukas Laksaris. -- Nikaeus = Nicene Oration / Theodore Metochites. Byzantine Empire -- Civilization.İznik (Turkey) -- Antiquities, Byzantine.Byzantine Empire -- Capital and capitol -- History. 45234 45234