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our little actors from the village of Muskule in Iznik...they are watching the camera crew framing them..

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Iznik is a city with a cultural heritage of 2400 years...It was an important city of the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman empires...besides having very fertile land and vast historical assets together with a beautiful lake, is known worldwide for its tiles...

The 1st and 7th Ecumenical Councils were held in Iznik in 325 and 787 A.D., respectively...
at the end of the 19th Council held in the Vatican in 1962, Iznik was declared a "holy city" for Christians...

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