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Bithynia

noun
1.
An ancient country in northwestern Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; was absorbed into the Roman Empire by the end of the 1st century BC.





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... told that the King of Bithynia in some expedition against the Scythians during the winter, and when at a great distance from the sea, had a violent [575] longing for a small fish known as aphy—a pilchard, or anchovy. His cook ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... daughter of Erectheus, king of Athens, and sister of Procris, as she was passing the river Ilissus, and carried her into his dominions, where she became the mother of twins, Calais and Zethes. In the Argonautic expedition, these chiefs delivered Phineus, the king of Bithynia, from the persecution of the Harpies, which were in the habit of snatching away the victuals served up at ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso


Words linked to "Bithynia" :   geographic area, Asia Minor, Anatolia, geographic region, geographical area, Nicaea, geographical region


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