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	Bithynia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bithynia as a province of the Roman Empire, 120 AD Bithynia was an ancient province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine (today Black Sea).
		As a Roman province, the boundaries of Bithynia frequently varied, and it was commonly united for administrative purposes with the province of Pontus.
		Bithynia appears to have attracted so much attention because of its roads and its strategic position between the frontiers of the Danube in the north and the Euphrates in the southeast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bithynia (868 words)

	Ancient Districts
		The country was conquered by Croesus, king of Lydia, in 560 BC and, after the subjugation of Lydia by the Persians four years later, it became a dominion of Persia.
		Bithynia flourished under the succeeding kings of the dynasty, notably Prusias I (reigned 237-192 BC); Prusias II (r.
		It was not a political unit and was annexed and occupied by the kings of Bithynia and Pontus respectively.
	www.ancientanatolia.com /sites/ancient_districts.htm (3048 words)

	Bithynia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
		But even before the conquest by Alexander the Bithynians appear to have asserted their independence, and successfully maintained it under two native princes, Bas and Zipoetes, the last of whom transmitted his power to his son Nicomedes I, the first to assume the title of king.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Bas (819 words)

	Bithynia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Bithynia is an ancient country of north-west Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey.
		The last was Bithynia’s main contender for power in the region, and the two states were often at war.
		Shortly after, Bithynia was allied with Pergamon and Ariathres of Cappodocia against Pharnaces of Pontus and Mithridates of Armenia.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /bithynia.htm (1428 words)

	Descent Through English Kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Reigned as King of England from 1216 to 1272.
		She deposed King Stephen and became Queen of England in 1141, but was soon deposed by Stephen.
		King of Scotland with Donald Bane from 1094 to 1097.
	home.att.net /~a.junkins/english.html (1030 words)

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		King Eumenes II had been, as a friend of the Romans, extremely hated in Greece;(19) but scarcely had a coldness arisen between him and the Romans, when he became suddenly popular in Greece, and the Hellenic hopefuls expected the deliverer from a foreign yoke to come now from Pergamus as formerly from Macedonia.
		Beyond the Halys Cappadocia--after king Ariarathes V Philopator (591-624) had, chiefly by the aid of the Attalids, held his ground against his brother and rival Holophernes who was supported by Syria-- followed substantially the Pergamene policy, as respected both absolute devotion to Rome and the tendency to adopt Hellenic culture.
		Not long after the battle of Magnesia king Pharnaces I had extended his dominion far beyond the Halys to Tius on the frontier of Bithynia, and in particular had possessed himself of the rich Sinope, which was converted from a Greek free city into the residence of the kings of Pontus.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/0/7/0/10704/10704.txt (14569 words)

	Bithynia and Galatia - All About Turkey
		In the 11th c Bithynia was ruled by the Seljuks.
		King Nicomedes of Bithynia brought them in as mercenaries the following year to provide support in his power struggle with the Seleucid Antiochos I, and the arrival of these Celtic hordes made serious inroads into the flourishing civilizations of Asia Minor.
		Employed as mercenaries by the Hellenistic kings they renewed their pillaging raids on Anatolia's cities until Attalos I, King of Pergamum (241-197 BC.), defeated them in two battles between 235 and 225 BC (Altar of Zeus in Pergamum) and forced them to settle.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /bitinya.htm (601 words)

	Montesquieu, Complete Works, vol. 3 (Grandeur and Declension of the Roman Empire; A Dialogue between Sylla and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As the kings of Syria always beheld, with a most invidious eye, the felicity of the kingdom of Egypt, they bent their whole thoughts to the conquest of that country; by this means, neglecting the east, they were dispossessed of several provinces there, and but indifferently obeyed in the rest.
		Hearing that Ptolemy king of Cyprus was possessed of immense wealth, they† enacted a law, proposed by a tribune, by which they gave to themselves the inheritance of a man still living, and confiscated to their own use the estates of a confederate prince.
		Thus kings, who lived in the midst of pomps and pleasures, did not dare to fix their eyes stedfastly on the Roman people; and their courage failing them, they hoped to suspend a little the miseries with which they were threatened, by their patience and submissive actions.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0171.03 (8928 words)

	Ancient coinage of Bithynia
		On the death of King Nicomedes III, B.C. 74, Bithynia was constituted a Roman Province.
		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.
		It was the chief city of the Bithynian kingdom and the residence of the king.
	www.snible.org /coins/hn/bithynia.html (2350 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.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T1533 (620 words)

	Arthurian Passages from Geoffrey of Monmouth
		So the king observed the festival with great solemnity, as he had designed, and very joyfully entertained his nobility, of whom there was a very great muster, with their wives and daughters, suitably to the magnificence of the banquet prepared for them.
		The king therefore stayed that night with Igerna, and had the full enjoyment of her, for she was deceived with the false disguise which he had put on, and the artful and amorous discourses wherewhith he entertained her.
		But when they saw the king in the likeness of the consul, sitting close by her, they were struck with shame and astonishment at his safe arrival there, whom they had left dead at the siege; for they were wholly ignorant of the miracles which Merlin had wrought with his medicines.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/geofhkb.htm (20675 words)

	Malter Galleries Past Auctions
		Kings of Pergamon, Eumenes I, 263 – 241 BC.
		King standing lt., holding trident, sacrificing at an altar; symbols in field.
		King enthroned facing, holding orb and sceptre; portcullis at feet.
	www.maltergalleries.com /archives/auction04/nov2004/page1.html (6340 words)

	Guide and Index to Lists of Rulers
		Margraves & Electors of Brandenburg & Kings of Prussia
		Dukes & Kings of Bohemia, Hungary, & Poland
		Savoyard and Bourbon Kings of Naples and Sicily
	www.friesian.com /histindx.htm (3012 words)

	The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Chapter 64
		The king, Bela the Fourth, assembled the military force of his counts and bishops; but he had alienated the nation by adopting a vagrant horde of forty thousand families of Comans, and these savage guests were provoked to revolt by the suspicion of treachery and the murder of their prince.
		The maritime power of the Turks had united the pope, the king of Cyprus, the republic of Venice, and the order of St. John, in a laudable crusade; their galleys invaded the coast of Ionia; and Amir was slain with an arrow, in the attempt to wrest from the Rhodian knights the citadel of Smyrna.
		Sigismond, the Hungarian king, was the son and brother of the emperors of the West: his cause was that of Europe and the church; and, on the report of his danger, the bravest knights of France and Germany were eager to march under his standard and that of the cross.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/gibbone/rome/volume2/chap64.htm (11036 words)

	History of the Syrian Kingdom of the Seleucids
		The Jews, favored by former kings of Syria, were driven to desperation by the mad project of this self-willed monarch, who, not content with plundering the Temple to satisfy his necessities, profaned it by setting up in the Holy of Holies the image of Jupiter Olympius.
		Upon this, Demetrius, the eldest son of the late king, perceiving that Balas had become odious to his subjects, took heart, and, landing in Cilicia, commenced a struggle for the throne.
		Ptolemy Physcon, the king of Egypt, raised up a pretender to his crown in the person of Alexander Zabinas, who professed to be the son of Balas.
	www.historyofmacedonia.org /AncientMacedonia/Seleucidae.html (3433 words)

	Eumenes II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		His military skill contributed substantially to the victory of Roman and Pergamene forces over the Seleucid king Antiochus III in the battle of Magnesia, in Lydia (autumn of 190).
		He therefore cultivated friendship with the Romans, securing their intervention in his struggles against the kings of Bithynia and Pontus, in northern Anatolia.
		In 172 Eumenes visited Rome to denounce Perseus, the king of Macedonia, for allegedly plotting aggressions in the East.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /Eumenes-II.htm (440 words)

	Anatolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Ghazi state based on ancient Bithynia, the Ottomans, eventually absorbed all it's neighbours, and was in control of most of Anatolia by the 1420's...
		The Ottoman state began as a Ghazi Kingdom based in old Bithynia, on the fringes of the Mongol dominated regions of central Anatolia.
		At a much later era, Bithynia was the heartland of Byzantine opposition to the Latin Empire in the 13th century (see Nicaea), and the cradle of Ottoman power, during the 14th century CE.
	www.hostkingdom.net /turkey.html (2565 words)

	The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire - Vol 1 - Chapter X Part III
		He espoused Pipa, the daughter of a king of the Marcomanni, a Suevic tribe, which was often confounded with the Alemanni in their wars and conquests.
		As long as the sceptre was possessed by a lineal succession of kings, they acquitted themselves of their important charge with vigilance and success.
		Their retreat to the maritime city of Heraclea, where the fleet had probably been stationed, was attended by a long train of wagons, laden with the spoils of Bithynia, and was marked by the flames of Nice and Nicomedia, which they wantonly burnt.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/roman/TheDeclineandFallofTheRomanEmpire-1/chap28.html (3476 words)

	Kings, Queens, Presidents and First Ladies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Robert The Magnificent, or The Devil, French Robert Le Magnifique, or Le Diable duke of Normandy (1027—35), the younger son of Richard II of Normandy and the father, by his mistress Arlette, of William the Conqueror of England.
		On the death of Robert II the Pious, king of France (1031), a crisis arose over the succession to the French throne.
		King William de Normandie I "the Conqueror"-[18092] was born in 10-1028 in Falaise, was christened in 1066, died on 9-9-1087 in St. Gervais, Rouen at age 58, and was buried in Abbey of St. Stephen, Caen, Normandie, France.
	www.livelyroots.com /kings/d4.htm (265 words)

	Rome - Vol I, Chapter X, Part 3
		It subsisted, as an independent state, from the time of the Peloponnesian war, 98 was at last swallowed up by the ambition of Mithridates, 99 and, with the rest of his dominions, sunk under the weight of the Roman arms.
		From the reign of Augustus, 100 the kings of Bosphorus were the humble, but not useless, allies of the empire.
		He guided the march which was only sixty miles from the camp of Chalcedon, 112 directed the resistless attack, and partook of the booty; for the Goths had learned sufficient policy to reward the traitor whom they detested.
	www.cca.org /cm/rome/vol1/ch1003.html (3496 words)

	Lugodoc's Guide to Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain
		The new inhabitants settled the islands of Britain and Brutus' pagan dynasty ruled for centuries, including King Leir (as made famous by Shakespeare), until in AD 43 the islands were conquered by The Romans.
		Arthur's response was to assemble a vast army of 183,300 fighting men from the forces of every king, duke, earl and leader who owed him fealty, and ordered it to muster in the lands of the Allobroges, ready to meet the forces of the Romans.
		The last British king Cadwallader died in AD 689, and although his two sons Yvor and Yni somehow harassed the English for 79 years, the Saxon advance was unstoppable.
	www.lugodoc.demon.co.uk /MYTH/Arthur/Monmouth.htm (2894 words)

	Montesquieu, Causes of the Greatness of the Romans
		But the cruelty of its kings, their cowardice, their avarice, their imbecility, their frightful sensuality made them so odious to their subjects that most of the time only the protection of the Romans kept them in power.
		These kings therefore sat on an unstable throne, and they were powerless outside the country because they were insecurely established within it.
		For they had carried things to the point where peoples and kings were their subjects without knowing precisely by what title, the rule being that it was enough to have heard of them to owe them submission.
	www.constitution.org /cm/ccgrd_l.htm (21473 words)

	Cedar Park Church of Christ Contextual Studies
		His mistakes are as clearly identified as his strong leadership, but one thing can be said with certainty: he was colorful.
		The O.T. Babylon was a corrupt world empire that ruled over many kings, seduced the nations to commit idolatry, and persecuted God's people.
		The Babylon of the first century, which is Rome, ruled over the kings of the earth; sat on seven mountains (suggestive of complete authority); was the center of the world's trade; was also a corrupter of the nations; and was a persecutor of God's saints (Rev. 17:18; 17:9; 18:3, 11-13; 17:2; 19:2; 17:6).
	www.cedarparkchurchofchrist.org /context/1peti.htm (1871 words)

	List of Kings of Bithynia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable.
		This page lists Kings of Bithynia, an ancient kingdom in northwestern Anatolia.
		Kings of Bithynia, 328-75 BC Zipoites I 328-279 BC Nicomedes I 279-255 BC Zipoites II 279-276 BC Etazeta (regent) 255 BC Ziaelas 255-228 BC Prusias I 228-185 BC Prusias II 185-149 BC Nicomedes II 149-128 BC Nicomedes III 128-94 BC Nicomedes IV 94-75 BC Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kings_of_Bithynia"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Kings_of_Bithynia (130 words)

	Bithynia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Bithynia was an ancient province 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 (modern Sakarya river), but the more commonly received division extended it to the Parthenius, which separated it from Paphlagonia, thus comprising the district inhabited by the Mariandyni.
		Bithynia as a province of the Roman Empire, 120 AD
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Bithynia.htm (815 words)

	Sketches in the History of Western Philosophy
		Brother and son were thus the "Kings" in the custody of the Regents.
		The absorption of the kingdom by the Ostrogoths, who dominated the Ukraine at the time in the fourth century, is a portent for the trouble that the Empire proper was going to have with the Goths in the fifth century.
		Hannibal fled as far as Bithynia, where he took poison in 183 rather than be surrendered to the Romans.
	www.friesian.com /hist-1.htm (12266 words)

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		The former alone was a serious opponent since, as an anatomist, he looked for the seat of the disease in the solid parts, rather than in the four fundamental humors (blood, mucus, fl and yellow gall) and their different mixtures.
		The establishment of the University of Naples by Frederick II in 1224, the preponderance of Arabian influence, and the rise of the Montpellier school, all exerted so unfavourable an influence that by the fourteenth century Salerno was well-nigh forgotten.
		In 1140 King Roger II ordered a state examination to test the proficiency of prospective physicians, and Frederick II in 1240 prescribed five years of study besides a year of practical experience.
	www.ewtn.com /library/HOMELIBR/10122A.TXT (18419 words)

	Chapter Gold of Nibelungen <i>to</i> Goliards of G by Brewer's Readers Handbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The reference is to Cæpio the Roman consul, who, on his march to Gallia Narbonensis, stole from Tolosa (Toulouse) the gold and silver consecrated by the Cimbrian Druids to their gods: He was utterly defeated by the Cimbrians, and some 112,000 Romans were left dead on the field of battle (b.c.106).
		Mar cus Licinius Crassus, surnamed “The Rich,” one of the first Roman triumvirate, tried to make himself master of Parthi a, but being defeated and brought captive to Orodês king of Parthia, he was put to death by having molten gold poured down his throat.
		Manlius Nepos Aquilius tried to rest ore the kings of Bithynia and Cappadocia, dethroned by Mithridatêes; but being unsuccessful and made prisoner, he was put to death by Mithridatêes by molten gold poured down his throat.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1117/14717/1.html (598 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - erkankiraz's Kocaeli Travelogue - NICOMEDIA-IZMIT-KOCAELI
		Now pre-eminent among the instances of manifold disaster was the collapse of Nicomedia, the metropolis of Bithynia; and I shall give a true and concise account of the misfortune of its destruction.
		It served as the capital of the kingdom of Bithynia and later, under the Romans, was often the residence of emperors.
		Xenophon mentions the Thyni to be the natives of Thrace (in Europe), "supposed to be the most dangerous of all the tribes, especially at night fighting" (VII.2).
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/tt/28dd (4505 words)

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