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	Bithynia - LoveToKnow 1911
		BITHYNIA (BtOvvia), an ancient district in the N.W. of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine.
		According to Strabo it was bounded on the E. by the river Sangarius; but the more commonly received division extended it to the Parthenius, which separated it from Paphlagonia, thus comprising the district inhabited by the Mariandyni.
		Under the Byzantine empire Bithynia was again divided into two provinces, separated by the Sangarius, to the west of which the name of Bithynia was restricted.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bithynia (965 words)

	Bithynia and Galatia - All About Turkey
		Since the wooded mountains of the north remained outside the dominion of Alexander the Great and his successors, Bithynia under the Seleucids was able to develop more or less independently and by the 2nd c.
		The Greek colony founded on the Bosphorus around 675 BC., where the Istanbul suburb of Kadikoy stands today, became the Romans' capital and in the Byzantine era, when it was the seat of the archbishopric, provided the venue for the fourth ecumenical council in 451.
		In the 11th c Bithynia was ruled by the Seljuks.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /bitinya.htm (601 words)

	Bithynia Encyclopedia Articles @ Omnipresent.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Bithynia was an ancient region, kinhdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine (today Black Sea).
		On the west and southwest it was separated from Mysia by the river Rhyndacus; and on the south it adjoined Phrygia, Epictetus and Galatia.
		Under the Byzantine Empire Bithynia was again divided into two provinces, separated by the Sangarius, to the west of which the name of Bithynia was restricted.
	omnipresent.net /encyclopedia/Bithynia (610 words)

	Bithynia
		The ancient province of Bithynia, corresponding roughly to central-northern Turkey, was situated on a fertile plain between Asia Minor in the west, the mountains of Galatia in the South, Pontus to the East and the Black Sea to the North.
		In his settlements, Bithynia was organized as a joint province with Pontus, a political arrangement that would last until the provincial reforms of Diocletion (c.
		Bithynia not only flourished as a part of the Roman Empire, when Constantine moved the capital to nearby Byzantium, it essentially formed the center of the Eastern Empire.
	www.unrv.com /provinces/bithynia.php (613 words)

	Bithynia at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Bithynia was an ancient district in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Black Sea (Euxine).
		According to Strabo it was bounded on the east by the river Sangarius, but the more commonly received division extended it to the Parthenius, which separated it from Paphlagonia, thus comprising the district inhabited by the Mariandyni.
		As a Roman province, the boundaries of Bithynia frequently varied, and it was commonly united for administrative purposes with the province of Pontus.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Bithynia.html (824 words)

	Ancient coinage of Bithynia
		On the death of King Nicomedes III, B.C. 74, Bithynia was consti- tuted a Roman Province.
		The limits of the Province were subsequently enlarged, notably by the Pontic dominions of Mithradates Eupator, the whole Province being known as ‘Pontus et Bithynia'.
		Between the conquest of Bithynia by the Romans, B.C. 72, and the accession of Augustus occur the coins of two queens, Musa, daughter of Orsobaris, and Orodaltis, daughter of a King Lycomedes (Reinach, Tr.
	www.snible.org /coins/hn/bithynia.html (2403 words)

	Bithynia
		Bithynia lies in the northwestern part of Asia Minor, between the Propontis and the Bosporus and Mysia to the west, the Euxine to the north, Phrygia and Galatia to the south, and Paphlagonia to the east.
		When the Younger Pliny governed this province in AD 103-5 he was actually in charge of two provinces, Bithynia and Pontus, for better administrative control.
		This city, often called "Greatest Metropoolis, leading city of Bithynia and Pontus," was sacked by Gauls in AD 256-57.
	www.usd.edu /~clehmann/pir/bithynia.htm (572 words)

	Antinous of Bithynia
		Antinous was born in Claudiopolis, a city in the Roman province of Bithynia, in the year 111 A.D. or the thirteenth year of the reign of Trajan (98-117 A.D.) He was of humble parentage, his father perhaps held a position of prestige in the city.
		Even those where the sculptor's hand failed, those that for obvious or subtle reasons cannot compare to that small brotherhood of Antinoine masterpieces, even those brutalized and devastated are still of the same face, the same unmistakable person.
		What sets his school of sculpture apart from all the carvings of time is that when first seen no one cares to know the identity of the artist, or is distracted by the imperfections, or even considers the circumstance of it's creation, but only sees the model.
	www.antinopolis.org /bithynia.html (5726 words)

	bithynia - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		Hittites may have occupied Bithynia in the remote past, for Priam of Troy found some of his stoutest enemies among the Amazons on the upper Sangarius in Phrygia, and these may have been Hittite, and may easily have settled along the river to its mouth.
		Bithynia is one of the provinces addressed in 1 Peter 1:1.
		Bithynia was for a thousand years part of the Byzantine Empire, and shared the fortunes and misfortunes of that state.
	www.searchgodsword.com /enc/isb/view.cgi?word=Bithynia&action=Lookup (620 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Bithynia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		BITHYNIA [Bithynia], ancient country of NW Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey.
		The original inhabitants were Thracians who established themselves as independent and were given some autonomy after Cyrus the Great incorporated Bithynia into the Persian Empire.
		BC, Mithradates VI of Pontus had designs on Bithynia, which was ruled by Nicomedes IV (sometimes confused with Nicomedes III), a client of Rome.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Bithynia.asp (387 words)

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