bithynia

English - Turkish

Definition of bithynia in English Turkish dictionary

(Tarih) Bitinya

English - English

Definition of bithynia in English English dictionary

An ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor

(Tarih) Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine (today Black Sea)

Ancient country, northwestern Anatolia. Bounded by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea, it was settled by Thracians in the late 2nd millennium BC. They never submitted to Alexander the Great, and by the 3rd century BC a powerful Hellenistic kingship had been established in the area. There followed a century of inept leadership and rapid decline. Bithynia's last king, Nicomedes IV, bequeathed his kingdom to the Romans in 74 BC

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

Hyphenation

Bi·thyn·i·a

Etymology

() From Latin Bithynia, from Ancient Greek Βιθυνία (Bithunia).