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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA coastal city, the capital of Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeast France. · A surname. (pronounced /ni:s/ or /naɪs/) · A census-designated place in Lake County, California, United States.
Borrowed from French Nice, from Latin Nīcaea, from Ancient Greek Νῑ́καια (Nī́kaia), from νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, “-ia”, suffix forming place names). It was named for a 4th-century-BCE victory of its colonizing Phocaean Greeks over local Ligurians, probably the Vediantii. Doublet of Iznik and Nicaea.
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