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Bithynia

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The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
236 words

(Βιθυνία), a region of northwest Asia Minor, opposite Constantinople. Bithynia became a separate province in the early 4th C. Besides ...

Bithynia

Bithynia   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Classical studies, History
Length:
602 words

Bithynia is situated in the northwestern part of Asia Minor. Herodotus (7.75), Thucydides (4.75.2), and Xenophon (Hellenica 1.3.2 and ...

Bithynia, Kingdom of

Bithynia, Kingdom of   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Classical studies, History
Length:
808 words

A region in northwestern Asia Minor, Bithynia was bounded on the west by the Sea of Marmara and the Thracian ...

Bithynia

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A Dictionary of the Bible (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Religion
Length:
57 words

Roman province, usually joined for convenience with neighbouring Pontus, in NW Asia Minor. Paul and *Silas had intended to ...

Bithynia

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Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton and Stephen Mitchell

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
Classical studies, History
Length:
590 words

a territory in NW Asia Minor, originally confined to the peninsula of Chalcedon, but gradually extending eastward to *Heraclea ...

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