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Amisus
A 6th-cent. colony of Miletus or Phocaea, was built on a peninsula site on the Black Sea coast, the best harbour between Sinope and Trapezus, at the head of a ...
Amycus
In mythology, king of the Bebryces, a savage people of Bithynia. He was of gigantic strength and compelled all comers to the land to box with him, the loser to ...
Arrian
c. ad 86–160.Born in Nicomedia, he held local office and pursued studies with Epictetus, whose lectures he later published. In Greece between 108 and 112 he attracted the friendship of Hadrian, who ...
Asclepiades
Of Myrleia in Bithynia (1st cent. bc), worked in Spain, and wrote on the history of Bithynia, and of scholarship; on Homer and Theocritus; and, as Atticist analogist, Περὶ ὄρθογραφίας ...
Asia Minor
The term ‘Asia Minor’ denotes the westernmost part of the Asian continent, equivalent to modern Turkey between the Aegean and the Euphrates. The west and south coastal fringes were part of the ...
Asia, Roman province
Attalus III of Pergamum bequeathed his kingdom to the Romans. After his death in 133 bc it was constituted as provincia Asia. Originally it consisted of Mysia, Troas, Aeolis, Lydia, Ionia (see ...
Aurelius Cotta, Marcus
(RE 107)brother of the two preceding, as consul 74 bc was sent to defend newly annexed Bithynia against Mithradates VI. Defeated by land and sea near Chalcedon, he was ...
Bapheus
(Βαφεύς, often incorrectly called Baphaion), site in Bithynia of a crucial battle in which Osman defeated the Byz. army under George Mouzalon on 27 July 1302. By this time, the ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
(Βιθυνία), a region of northwest Asia Minor, opposite Constantinople. Bithynia became a separate province in the early 4th C. Besides
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
Bithynia is situated in the northwestern part of Asia Minor. Herodotus (7.75), Thucydides (4.75.2), and Xenophon (Hellenica 1.3.2 and
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A Dictionary of the Bible (2 ed.)
Roman province, usually joined for convenience with neighbouring Pontus, in NW Asia Minor. Paul and *Silas had intended to
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Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton and Stephen Mitchell
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
a territory in NW Asia Minor, originally confined to the peninsula of Chalcedon, but gradually extending eastward to *Heraclea ...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
A region in northwestern Asia Minor, Bithynia was bounded on the west by the Sea of Marmara and the Thracian
Black Sea
The sea situated on the junction of the trade routes from the east Mediterranean to further north and east. In the early MA most of its coastline belonged to Byzantium. ...
Byzantium
An ancient Greek city, founded in the 7th century bc, at the southern end of the Bosporus, site of the modern city of Istanbul. It was rebuilt by Constantine the Great in ad 324–30 as Constantinople.
Calpurnia
Third wife of Pliny the Younger, whom she accompanied to Bithynia. She was granddaughter of Calpurnius Fabatus, to whom Pliny excused her miscarriage on grounds of her youth and inexperience. His ...
Cassius Dio
(c. ad 164–after 229),Greek senator and author of an 80‐book history of Rome from the foundation of the city to ad 229. Dio came from a prominent family of Nicaea in Bithynia. He was praetor in 194 ...
Chalcedon
(Ξαλκηδών, now Kadıköy), city of Bithynia, located directly across the Bosporos from Constantinople. Chalcedon was permanently overshadowed by the nearby capital, but it did benefit in the 4th and ...
Demosthenes
Of Bithynia, epic poet of unknown date; composed a Bithyniaca in at least ten books.FragmentsFragmente der griechischen Historiker 699;J. U. Powell, Collectanea Alexandrina 25–7.Richard L. Hunter
Dio Cocceianus
Later called Chrysostom (c.ad 40/50—after 110), Greek orator and popular philosopher. Born of wealthy family in Prusa in Bithynia, Dio began a career as a rhetorician at Rome, but soon fell under the ...
